Politics now runs mood first and ideas second, the reverse of how argument worked for most of the twentieth century.

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• A corrupt, partisan majority on the Supreme Court has given Trump a huge amount of untrammeled power. PKPaul Krugman14 Oct 2026politics
• A country without cultural unity struggles to provide public goods, because its politics turns into an ethnic spoils system. NSNoah Smith9 Apr 2026politics
• A culture of direct feedback and debate leads to faster decisions and quicker learning than a culture of politics and second-guessing. GBGibson Biddle22 Nov 2022politics
• A social system should be judged at least as much by its effects outside economics and politics as inside them BRBertrand Russellc. 1918politics
• A whole class of product managers built a career on politics rather than on technical or customer skill, and that skill is now worth nothing. TVTom Verrilli2 Aug 2026politics

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