I’m reading the new book from New Republic senior editor Jonathan Chait, The Big Con. It’s really good, describing how “American politics has been hijacked by a tiny coterie of right-wing economic extremists, some of them ideological zealots, others merely greedy, a few of them possibly insane.” Chait shows how a combination of crackpot (i.e. [...]






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