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3 days ago | 
unherd.com | Michael Lind
DEIDonald TrumpEconomyJobsMeritocracyPoliticsUniversitiesUSWorking class In his second term, President Trump has promised to make America meritocratic again.
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3 weeks ago | 
nypost.com | Michael Lind
The Trump administration is set to begin tariffs on "Liberation Day" this week. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Will “Liberation Day” — Wednesday, when the Trump administration unrolls its new tariff policy — be remembered, like Dec. 7, 1941, as a “day of infamy”?
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1 month ago | 
thefp.com | Michael Lind
Donald Trump is back—and so is the tariff. “It’s a beautiful word, isn’t it?” the president quipped before the joint session of Congress on Tuesday—so beautiful that he referenced tariffs 17 more times in his address.
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1 month ago | 
tabletmag.com | Michael Lind
Donald Trump is back—and so is the tariff. “It’s a beautiful word, isn’t it?” the president quipped before the joint session of Congress on Tuesday—so beautiful that he referenced tariffs 17 more times in his address. In the short time since his second inauguration on Jan.
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1 month ago | 
unherd.com | Michael Lind
American immigrationassimilationEthnic conflictethnicityRacerestofworldSocietyTucker Carlson After a generation in which globalisation was supposed to be the future, nationalism is back — including in its hideous forms that peg national belonging to arbitrary racial categories. Consider a recent rant from Tucker Carlson, in which the Former Fox News host mused: “Every other group in the world has the right to its own homeland, except white people? Like, what?
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1 month ago | 
lucianne.com | Michael Lind
Original ArticlePosted By: Moritz55, 3/3/2025 2:55:38 PMPresident Trump's attempt to end the war in Ukraine has enraged liberal internationalists on both sides of the Atlantic.
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1 month ago | 
unherd.com | Michael Lind
Abraham LincolnChinaChurchillDonald TrumpFDRRussiateddy rooseveltUkraineUSVladamir PutinWarWoodrow WilsonXi Jinping President Trump’s attempt to end the war in Ukraine has enraged liberal internationalists on both sides of the Atlantic.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Michael Lind |Stuart Jeffries |Michael Taube |Joel Kotkin
If the nightmare of anticommunists during the Cold War was an endless future of totalitarian terror, the nightmare of today’s critics of liberalism is an endless future of constant social upheaval and atomization as a result of unchecked markets and radical individualism. Not a boot stamping on a human face forever, but a high-tech appliance in need of the latest upgrades — forever.
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2 months ago | 
spectator.com.au | Michael Lind
If the nightmare of anticommunists during the cold war was an endless future of totalitarian terror, the nightmare of today’s critics of liberalism is an endless future of constant social upheaval and atomisation as a result of unchecked markets and radical individualism. Not a boot stamping on a human face forever, but a high-tech appliance in need of the latest upgrades – forever.
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2 months ago | 
spectator.co.uk | Michael Lind
If the nightmare of anticommunists during the cold war was an endless future of totalitarian terror, the nightmare of today’s critics of liberalism is an endless future of constant social upheaval and atomisation as a result of unchecked markets and radical individualism. Not a boot stamping on a human face forever, but a high-tech appliance in need of the latest upgrades – forever.
