John Halpin

5 days ago | liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen

✝️ “FULL TEXT: Pope Leo’s XIV’s Homily at Mass With the Cardinal Electors in the Sistine Chapel,” published in the National Catholic Register.

1 week ago | liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen

Editor’s note: This week we’re recommending five of our favorite Substacks that put out consistently excellent and interesting work. Please give them a look and subscribe if you can. 🌍 Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism, by Yaw Asamoah. Unbelievably detailed posts from Asamoah on African development and more general geopolitics and economics.

2 weeks ago | liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Ruy Teixeira

ūüďĒ ‚ÄúThe Post-Neoliberal Delusion,‚ÄĚ by Jason Furman. This long essay on the limitations of Joe Biden‚Äôs post-neoliberal policies in Foreign Affairs from a while back is worth revisiting in light of the Trump administration‚Äôs own challenges on this front.

3 weeks ago | liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen

📖 “Progress Depends on Reversing the Left's Working-Class Woes: There’s no forging a durable progressive coalition without winning back blue-collar workers,” by Jared Abbott. Our friends at the Center for Working-Class Politics put out a banger of a post a few weeks ago.

1 month ago | liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen |John Halpin

ūüďä "Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?" by Gordon Hanson and Enrico Moretti. Very interesting National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) paper with lots of good data to chew over. We examine changes in the spatial distribution of good jobs across US commuting zones over 1980-2000 and 2000-2021. We define good jobs as those in industries in which full-time workers attain high wages, accounting for individual and regional characteristics.