"Obscure liberal academic"—@politico. Latest book: Take Back Our Party (@theprospect). Professor @UConnLaw. Chair @southerncenter. Co-founder @Guidewire_PandC.
May 24, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
My @washingtonpost review of Thomas Piketty's new book is up:
"Improving the lot of the disadvantaged ceased to be its main focus. Instead, it turned its attention primarily to serving the interests of the winners in the educational competition."
Dec 21, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1. The main argument against Medicare for All—that many people want to keep their health plans—is bogus.
baselinescenario.com/2019/12/21/fal…2. Health insurance isn't an end consumption good, like Coke or Pepsi, where you care about choice. It's a financial contract that helps you buy the thing you actually want: health care.
Dec 18, 2019 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
1. So, the last chapter of Take Back Our Party is live.
prospect.org/takebackourpar…2. A lot of writers are familiar with the Last Chapter Problem. The problem is that after you spend a whole book explaining what's wrong with the world, readers (reasonably) want you to explain how to fix it.
Dec 10, 2019 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
(1/9) So, I wrote a book.* I thought I was done after Economism, but I couldn't help it. For once, I can say that I really felt the need to say something.
* It's only 32,000 words, so law professors call it an "article," not a book.
(2/9) I wanted people to read it—especially before the Iowa primary. So I asked @ddayen if he would put it on the website of @theprospect for free, and lo and behold, he agreed!*
* As he said, magazines serialized books in the Gilded Age, so why not in the Second Gilded Age?
