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- “The question is not whether we will be extremists,” Martin Luther King Jr. wrote from jail in Birmingham, “but what kind of extremists we will be.” @lilygeismer.bsky.social on the history of calls for moderation in our forum with @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social:
- Our next issue, BRUTE FORCE AND PLUNDER, drops soon. With @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, Vivian Gornick, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social @joshuacraze.bsky.social @liv-veazey.bsky.social Robin D. G. Kelley, Aslı Ü. Bâli & Aziz Rana, Gerald Epstein, @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social +
- Plus photos by Salih Basheer; fiction by Emmett Rensin; @blbalthaser.bsky.social on Mark Mazower’s “On Antisemitism”; and Marie Gottschalk on the deportation-industrial complex & books by @briannanofil.bsky.social, @jesspish.bsky.social, @michellesphelps.bsky.social, @equalityalec.bsky.social
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- “Popularist talk about constraints has become a paralyzing cliché, concealing, condoning, and perpetuating serious failures of leadership.” @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social in our latest forum:
- “If our goal is to maintain access to stuffy Washington rooms for elites, by all means, we should moderate. If we’re serious not just about winning elections but governing to change lives, let’s try standing for something real.” @coribush.bsky.social in our latest forum:
- “While democracy faces an existential threat, pundits and strategists remain stuck in the past.” Now online, @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social lead a forum on Democrats’ timidity in the face of authoritarianism, with @coribush.bsky.social @amandalitman.bsky.social + many others:
