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It turns out, in other words, that liberals aren’t just matter-of-fact or wishy-washy. They are invested in the tail-chasing politics of procedural compromise, vague and terminally uninspiring as it may be. It’s a source of identity for them. The problem isn’t just that no one has offered up anythi…

Democratic power brokers bewailed the bald temerity of a Sanders campaign

He also examines the obverse trend in the literary marketplace, with authors increasingly expected to serve as their own “storytelling managers.”

[...] As German author Philipp Schönthaler writes in his new book, Portrait of the Manager as a Young Author, beginning in the 1980s, businesses have studiously “redefined themselves as engaged in ‘cultural and affective activity,’” and as a result, they’ve begun to view their employees “as interpr…

These stories are placid homilies of consumer-spiritual stasis