Ruy Teixeira

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

🤝 "How to Prevent Political Violence," by Amanda Ripley. Following the assassination of a Minnesota state lawmaker last week (and the near assassination of another), Americans are facing the specter of increased political violence yet again. As this leads nowhere good—and fast—it is imperative that cooler heads and saner voices prevail. Enter journalist Amanda Ripley, who has written extensively about American polarization, tribal conflict, and their consequences.

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

⚡️ “After the Green Vortex: Why Energy Policy Bipartisanship Could Be Closer Than We Think,” by Ted Nordhaus. If you read just one article on the future of energy policy, let it be this one from The Breakthrough Institute’s Substack. Absolutely lucid and entirely correct.

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

ūüďį ‚ÄúDisdain for the Less Educated Is the Last Acceptable Prejudice,‚ÄĚ by Michael Sandel. An oldie but a goodie‚ÄĒone that remains as relevant as ever. In the lead-up to the 2020 election, Harvard philosophy professor Michael Sandel argued that the Democratic Party, whose coalition is home to a growing number of credentialed professionals, had erroneously come to believe that the only way for people to get ahead in a post-industrial age was through more formal education.

3 weeks ago | liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira

It may be starting to dawn onat least some Democrats that their heavy bet on renewable energy and “net-zero” emissions has been a huge political loser. Early last month, 35 House Democrats voted alongside their Republican colleagues to kill a law in California—a version of which has been adopted by 11 other states—mandating that all new car and truck models sold in the state would have to be “electric or otherwise nonpolluting” by 2035.

3 weeks ago | worldofinteriors.com | Ruy Teixeira

Abe Odedina believes that heaven and hell are closer in Salvador than anywhere else. His home is in Pelourinho, the Brazilian city’s historic centre, where Portuguese colonists traded West African slaves who disembarked in the Bahia region during the colonial period. It offers panoramic views of Candomblé terreiros and Baroque churches that cut through the hillside, enveloping the house in the syncretic spirituality and diasporic culture that defines the area.