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26 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Respectfully, I don't think liberals were the ones who made this choice.
The idea that something is a "cultural identity marker" means that people attribute some non-instrumental symbolic value to it. Seems like the people who are willing to risk illness, death and the infection of others to do something are the ones more driven by cultural values.
If the media you consume, or your political identity is causing you to hurt yourself and others, that seems like a cultural problem. I'm sure liberal finger-wagging is irritating, but hard to see how that's the bigger problem here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fox-news-is-…
Conservatives more likely to oppose public health restrictions than liberals. But in the US the gap is much larger. Why? Seems more plausible that conservative elite messaging (Fox, GOP) & embrace of conspiracism is to blame rather than that US liberals are simply more annoying.

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26 Dec
Dr. Oz has made his medical credentials the center of his political campaign for Senate. But he has trafficked in misinformation about COVID and other public health issues for years. Very damning review of his record. nytimes.com/2021/12/26/us/…
Oz knows that "Dr. Oz" is central to whatever political appeal he has. He flips out if he is not being called Dr.
Well before he entered politics, Oz's colleagues at Columbia raised concerns about his comfort in lending his name - and the prestige of Columbia - to quack claims.
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24 Dec
Heckman gives the impression that Denmark's welfare state does not reduce inequality, then in a casual aside at the end, acknowledges that it does but via solutions (wealth redistribution) he seems to dislike rather than his preferred approach of education. ImageImageImage
Heckman is a great scholar, and I buy his underlying research that the more advantaged can benefit more from more generous public services. But this seems to argue for inequality-reducing policies that can't be gamed, rather than assuming there is nothing to learn from Denmark.
People can agree on what the research tells us, but disagree on the implications. For me, Heckman's work helps to narrow the search for how Denmark reduced intergenerational inequality and draw more attention to redistribution.
H/T Gray Kimbrough
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23 Dec
Meghan McCain is blaming political ideology for her failures as View presenter, but her political ideology and famous name helped get her invited to the party in the first place, she can't have it both ways. ImageImage
If I was Meghan McCain I would simply not write stories alleging that someone's career was based on favoritism.
In a column where she spends multiple paragraphs reminiscing about her Dad, McCain declares that she, for one, believes that the most qualified person should get the job. Riiiight. ImageImageImage
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23 Dec
Started a substack this year (I know, I'm sorry) on the overarching theme of threats to governance.

Here were the three stories that drew the most interest and some reflections.

#1 discusses the bullshit/branding combo fueling educational gag orders: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/bullshit-bra…
First observation: my most popular piece was about the culture wars! But my interest is how culture war politics affect governance, so I followed this up with a series of stories about how the anti-CRT movement is affecting school officials and leading to book bans. 2/
Tracing the effects of the CRT moral panic 3/
The book bans will continue until patriotism improves: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-book-ban…

How school officials en up both siding the Holocaust donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-lessons-…

Making public jobs impossible donmoynihan.substack.com/p/making-publi…
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19 Dec
This sounds remarkably definitive but also a much more radical position than the past where he raised concerns about specific pieces of BBB, but not the whole thing.
Going from "we need a 10 year costs for the bill" or "work requirements for the CTC" to "no, I can't support anything" - on Fox - doesn't seem like a good-faith negotiation process.
Whats at stake with BBB.
If it fails, we lose real solutions to real problems:
*Best shot at climate change
*Anti-poverty child tax credit
*Medicaid expansion + stopping large ACA premium increases
*Affordable housing
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15 Dec
Biden just signed a new executive order aimed at improving people's experience of government. It includes a lot of significant changes for different agencies and programs.
@pamela_herd and I break it all down. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/understandin…
There are some big themes, and some specific policy changes. The most obvious starting point is that this is the most substantive governmentwide effort that is centrally focused on administrative burdens for members of the public. 2/ donmoynihan.substack.com/p/understandin…
The EO green lights a wide array of research that agencies should pursue to better understand people's experience of government.
Evidence-based and people-centered is a good formula for governing. 3/
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