What Matthew Yglesias thinks about Europe
Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Matthew Yglesias has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsBut I think this impulse to gild the lily and attribute the rise of Hitler to deep intellectual trends is an example of a pretty common fallacy of assuming that an incredibly important world event must have incredibly important roots.
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Their wordsThe real story of Hitler's rise is mostly a history of contingency - bad choices by specific influential politicians first wrecked the German economy and then handed power to Hitler.