The Post-Partisan Emporium

Two Murders—and the Cost of Luxury Beliefs The death of two progressive activists shocked the nation. And that says everything about crime and class in America. By   Rob Henderson Ryan Carson and his girlfriend on a bench before the attack. (Via X) Recently, two high-profile supporters of “justice reform” were murdered.  At 4 a.m. on Monday, Ryan Carson, a 32-year-old social justice and climate change activist, was walking with his girlfriend in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, when he was  stabbed to death  by a stranger. Only a few hours earlier in Philadelphia, activist and journalist Josh Kruger was  shot and killed  in his home.  And two Democratic  lawmakers  who  voted  to “redirect funding to community-based policing reforms” have been recent victims of violent crime. On Monday night, blocks away from the Capitol in Washington, D.C., Congressman Henry Cuellar was  carjacked  by three armed men. (The lawmaker survived the incident unscathed.) In February, Angie Craig was attacked in an

  The Revolt of the Somewheres National populism as a response to Anywhere arrogance HELEN DALE  AND  LORENZO WARBY The French economist Thomas Piketty has a real gift for assembling data. His  Merchant Right versus Brahmin Left   analysis  is an enlightening analysis of postwar Western electoral politics post the expansion of higher education. Parliamentary/representative politics have a long history, dating back to  the late C12th . The industrial revolution’s factory and office employment not only separated production from households. Men worked and networked together in increasingly urbanised societies. The shared experience, denser connections and expanding mass communications led to mass politics  1   and agitation for expanded suffrage. As democratic politics developed, the main divide was between lower-income, lower-asset folk (“labour”) on one side of politics and higher-income, higher-asset folk on the other (“capital”). With the development of mass higher education and perva