Old Goats with Jonathan Alter

6 days ago | oldgoats.substack.com | Jonathan Alter

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6 days ago | oldgoats.substack.com | Jonathan Alter

Why does this Jew love the new pope? Let me count the ways. After I do, I’ll tell you something about Leo XIV’s connection to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the Trump/Musk demolition project, which, as Bill Gates told the Financial Times this week, has led to “the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children.”Every pope from 1523 to 1978 was Italian. Then we had a Pole, a German, and an Argentinian. Now we've got one of my homies.

1 week ago | oldgoats.substack.com | Jonathan Alter

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2 weeks ago | oldgoats.substack.com | Jonathan Alter

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2 weeks ago | oldgoats.substack.com | Jonathan Alter

In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt lifted the United States out of the fetal position with his thrilling First Hundred Days. I entitled my first book The Defining Momentbecause this period changed the social contract — the deal — between the American people and their government by redefining what we owe each other. That “New Deal” is now 92 years old. It is still in place. But the world FDR helped to build is under assault as never before.