What John Ganz thinks about politics
American writer and historian of the right; author of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s (2024), writer of the newsletter Unpopular Front, and co-host with Jamelle Bouie of Unclear and Present Danger.
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2 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what John Ganz has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI’ve written a few criticisms of the technocratic-positivist approach to American politics that I believe seriously distorts political reasoning and judgment, especially on the center-left.
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Our readingPositivist pundits wrongly treat politics as discrete policy issues whose merits can be tallied.
Their wordsThis is the problem with the entire positivist pundit group, they see everything as discrete policy issues with merits and demerits that can be tallied up, we can take some of this, and reject some of that.