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5 days ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen
đ âProgress Depends on Reversing the Left's Working-Class Woes: Thereâs no forging a durable progressive coalition without winning back blue-collar workers,â by Jared Abbott. Our friends at the Center for Working-Class Politics put out a banger of a post a few weeks ago.
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1 week ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira
This just in: Americans love nukes!New Gallup data show attitudes toward nuclear energy doing a U-turn from negative views in the mid-teens to strongly positive views today. In less then 10 years, positive views have spiked by 17 points while negative views have plummeted by 19 points. That’s taken net support (favor minus oppose) from -10 to +27. This is surprising but it’s worth asking why this is surprising.
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1 week ago | 
open.substack.com | Ruy Teixeira
This just in: Americans love nukes!New Gallup data show attitudes toward nuclear energy doing a U-turn from negative views in the mid-teens to strongly positive views today. In less then 10 years, positive views have spiked by 17 points while negative views have plummeted by 19 points. That’s taken net support (favor minus oppose) from -10 to +27. This is surprising but it’s worth asking why this is surprising.
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1 week ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira
Today I have the privilege of welcoming Marc Dunkelman to the podcast. Marc is a research fellow in International and Public Affairs at Brown University and the author of a new book, Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring it Back. We begin by discussing a key premise of his book: progressivism is, and always has been, split between a Hamiltonian impulse to push power up and a Jeffersonian impulse to push power down.
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2 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira
Trump’s “golden age” is presenting Democrats with a golden opportunity. The reason isn’t excesses around DOGE, deportation, DEI, universities, research funding, and the like—though all of these have been problems for the Trump administration. But they pale in comparison to current developments around Trump’s tariff regime and its economic effects.
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2 weeks 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.
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2 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira
This week I’m thrilled to welcome Derek Thompson to the show. Derek is a staff writer at The Atlantic, the host of the Plain Englishpodcast, and, as I’m sure many of you have heard, the author of Abundance with Ezra Klein. Wasting no time, we jump right into Derek’s vision of an abundance agenda. Why has the center-left been so slow to embrace these ideas? How can we effectively match priorities with policy? Can abundance appeal to moderates and conservatives as well as liberals?
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3 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira
The concept that Democrats have delusions about their current situation—that they are in denial about the implications of the 2024 election and other trends—is having a moment. No less a discourse arbiter than the Gray Lady has weighed in on the side that, yes, this is a thing.
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4 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira
Unless you have been living without an internet connection for the last few weeks or so, you have certainly encountered a book called Abundance, which argues that Democrats must face up to the failures of liberal governance and embrace a politics of plenty. I note somewhat immodestly that I was for an “abundance agenda” before it was cool. Back in 2022, when I was exasperated at the direction of my lifelong political party, I wrote a three-point plan to fix the Democrats.
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1 month ago | 
thefp.com | Ruy Teixeira
‘Abundance’ Is a Winning Message. But Can Democrats Embrace It? The politics of plenty is having a moment. I’m glad. But it will be a hard sell in today’s Democratic Party. Unless you have been living without an internet connection for the last few weeks or so, you have certainly encountered a book called Abundance, which argues that Democrats must face up to the failures of liberal governance and embrace a politics of plenty. Not to be that guy, but I was for an “abundance agenda” before it was cool.
