Matt BruenigReshuffling the Capitalist PortfolioMoe Tkacik has a piece at In These Times that is ostensibly about the tech sector and antitrust. I don’t want to pollute the beautifully…Dec 18, 20203Dec 18, 20203
Matt BruenigLiberal Pluralism Is FakeThe coolest thing about modernity is that nearly every college-educated person in society has performatively adopted the hegemonic notion…Jul 22, 202025Jul 22, 202025
Matt BruenigIdentitarian Deference Continues to Roil LiberalismSeven years ago, I coined the term “identitarian deference” (ID) to describe the idea that “privileged individuals should defer to the…Jul 17, 202026Jul 17, 202026
Matt BruenigWhat Does David Dayen Think a Middle Class Tax Is?Like a lot of journalists last week, David Dayen wrote up Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare for All (M4A) financing plan with the talking points…Nov 2, 20191Nov 2, 20191
Matt BruenigThe Math of the Working Families Party EndorsementI was slightly amused and slightly annoyed yesterday when I saw the Working Families Party endorse Elizabeth Warren for president and then…Sep 17, 20196Sep 17, 20196
Matt BruenigSawicky Concedes the PointMax Sawicky claimed that the US could not finance a $10,000 payment to every adult and implored everyone to “do the math,” which for him…Sep 10, 2019Sep 10, 2019
Matt BruenigMy Favorite Glenn Kessler Fuck UpRyan Grim has a wonderful story at The Intercept about Washington Post’s Fact Checker Glenn Kessler and his nearly constant fuck ups, most…Sep 7, 2019Sep 7, 2019
Matt BruenigIs Insurance Churn a Problem or Not?Ezra Klein has a piece at Vox about insurance churn. I put out a quick response to it with a list of statistics on insurance churn that I…Jul 29, 2019Jul 29, 2019
Matt BruenigWhat’s the deal with the unfair labor practice charge against Sanders’s campaign?A former Sanders campaign staffer filed an unfair labor practice (ULP) charge against the campaign a short while ago (Bloomberg story…Jul 26, 20192Jul 26, 20192
Matt BruenigThe MMT Solution to Inflation is Using Mass Layoffs to Bid Down WagesOne year ago, I wrote a piece that was just a series a quotes from Randy Wray’s 1997 paper titled “Government as Employer of Last Resort…Jun 15, 201910Jun 15, 201910
