Persuasion pieces should always come with short bio blurbs of their authors, but especially for brief multi-author takes like this. It makes it easier to assess the viewpoint diversity presented and their unstated assumptions.
Persuasion needs more voices from the diverse camp of restrained foreign policy proponents. This view, which generally champions robust diplomacy and economic engagement while rolling back our global military presence, security commitments, and defense spending, is gaining followers on the right and the left. It is odd that these voices are not being heard here. Curiously, other new publications that also purport to fight illiberalism on the right and left by engaging in vigorous free exchange of ideas have failed to give these views a fair hearing too (ex: Liberties Journal, American Purpose, Tablet, ArcDigital). There is a blind spot in our movement. Luckily it can easily be fixed with few choice guest essays. I know most here would welcome the debate.
Please correct me if I'm wrong here, or if something has changed, but Biden did not simply come in and undo Betsy DeVos's reforms on campus sexual misconduct. I was concerned about this too, and relieved that he merely appointed a committee to evaluate the current standards, which I felt was a reasonable move. I was also glad when the person in charge of the committee made a statement in support of the idea of due process for the accused. I haven't heard anything about them wrapping up or making any recommendations yet ... have I missed something?
If President Biden has "united the country" it has escaped my notice. People who already agree with what he says will hear him and say "Sure, that's obvious -- everybody knows that to be true" and think he's bringing us all together. I hope everyone here can see the flaw in that.
I had hoped that Biden would be as good as his word on being President to all Americans (and of course he is, but we're talking here, as he was, in the metaphoric sense), but statements like calling the Georgia election law an "atrocity" and "Jim Crow for the 21st century" are nothing if not Trumpian in their vituperation and careless disregard for the truth.
His eagerness to take due-process back away from students and to fork money over to groups who will predictably use it nefariously (Iran and UNRWA) is not a great recommendation, either.
Many books will be written trying to explain how a septuagenarian establishment politician, who spent almost half a century as a senator or vice president, became a bold, revolutionary leader.
A whole new meaning to the phrase go big or go home 😀
Sadly as mentioned a lot will depend on how successful Republicans are at derailing his agenda, 50/50 I expect even if they win the house back and the presidency I don¡t think we'll be returning to the neo liberal days or Ronald Regan.
I can't help but feel that however ambitious Biden's infrastructure plans may be, they must be implemented in a country where building a subway station or a mile of high speed rail often costs many times what it would in Europe or East Asia.
I guess I’m happy that the Biden Administration is boring. That is refreshing. But he’s essentially just repackaged Trump’s agenda with an Obama glaze. I fear we’ve traded an isolationist, big-spending working-class populist for an isolationist, big-spending suburbanite populist. I hope he trades his bipartisan rhetoric for more bipartisan action.
I am concerned about the equivalence of fairness with trendy leftist biases in the Biden administration. The Ivy League, rich white gentry are running the show in Joe land. As Emily Yoffe points out, Biden has emblazoned that unfairness by again eliminating due process in colleges. But Biden is also ignoring the pain suffered by rural white men who face bad policing, opioid deaths and devastating poverty. Yet they have neither BLM nor CRT to advocate for them, and the NRA is crooked. I fear an extreme cant to the right if the duration of Biden's term is a continuation of helping only the urban elite and their pet urban needy. I do not see anything like either honesty or fairness or, most troubling, I do not see truth guiding this administration. Biden won by a narrow margin in red states because he told us rural white men and their families were people too, but to be honest, it does not look that way from my view here in Southwestern Pennsylvania. These "Mrs. Jellyby"gentry will prove to have been very dangerous I fear.
Persuasion pieces should always come with short bio blurbs of their authors, but especially for brief multi-author takes like this. It makes it easier to assess the viewpoint diversity presented and their unstated assumptions.
Persuasion needs more voices from the diverse camp of restrained foreign policy proponents. This view, which generally champions robust diplomacy and economic engagement while rolling back our global military presence, security commitments, and defense spending, is gaining followers on the right and the left. It is odd that these voices are not being heard here. Curiously, other new publications that also purport to fight illiberalism on the right and left by engaging in vigorous free exchange of ideas have failed to give these views a fair hearing too (ex: Liberties Journal, American Purpose, Tablet, ArcDigital). There is a blind spot in our movement. Luckily it can easily be fixed with few choice guest essays. I know most here would welcome the debate.
Please correct me if I'm wrong here, or if something has changed, but Biden did not simply come in and undo Betsy DeVos's reforms on campus sexual misconduct. I was concerned about this too, and relieved that he merely appointed a committee to evaluate the current standards, which I felt was a reasonable move. I was also glad when the person in charge of the committee made a statement in support of the idea of due process for the accused. I haven't heard anything about them wrapping up or making any recommendations yet ... have I missed something?
If President Biden has "united the country" it has escaped my notice. People who already agree with what he says will hear him and say "Sure, that's obvious -- everybody knows that to be true" and think he's bringing us all together. I hope everyone here can see the flaw in that.
I had hoped that Biden would be as good as his word on being President to all Americans (and of course he is, but we're talking here, as he was, in the metaphoric sense), but statements like calling the Georgia election law an "atrocity" and "Jim Crow for the 21st century" are nothing if not Trumpian in their vituperation and careless disregard for the truth.
His eagerness to take due-process back away from students and to fork money over to groups who will predictably use it nefariously (Iran and UNRWA) is not a great recommendation, either.
Many books will be written trying to explain how a septuagenarian establishment politician, who spent almost half a century as a senator or vice president, became a bold, revolutionary leader.
A whole new meaning to the phrase go big or go home 😀
Sadly as mentioned a lot will depend on how successful Republicans are at derailing his agenda, 50/50 I expect even if they win the house back and the presidency I don¡t think we'll be returning to the neo liberal days or Ronald Regan.
I can't help but feel that however ambitious Biden's infrastructure plans may be, they must be implemented in a country where building a subway station or a mile of high speed rail often costs many times what it would in Europe or East Asia.
I guess I’m happy that the Biden Administration is boring. That is refreshing. But he’s essentially just repackaged Trump’s agenda with an Obama glaze. I fear we’ve traded an isolationist, big-spending working-class populist for an isolationist, big-spending suburbanite populist. I hope he trades his bipartisan rhetoric for more bipartisan action.
I am concerned about the equivalence of fairness with trendy leftist biases in the Biden administration. The Ivy League, rich white gentry are running the show in Joe land. As Emily Yoffe points out, Biden has emblazoned that unfairness by again eliminating due process in colleges. But Biden is also ignoring the pain suffered by rural white men who face bad policing, opioid deaths and devastating poverty. Yet they have neither BLM nor CRT to advocate for them, and the NRA is crooked. I fear an extreme cant to the right if the duration of Biden's term is a continuation of helping only the urban elite and their pet urban needy. I do not see anything like either honesty or fairness or, most troubling, I do not see truth guiding this administration. Biden won by a narrow margin in red states because he told us rural white men and their families were people too, but to be honest, it does not look that way from my view here in Southwestern Pennsylvania. These "Mrs. Jellyby"gentry will prove to have been very dangerous I fear.