Thoughtful and optimistic columnI enjoyed reading it, and I think you will too. Although Singhal is slightly to the left of myself on economic issues, I find him to be a very thoughtful and clear thinker, and also a very good writer. Excerpts:
When I was about 24 and working in a fun, low-key job as the online editor for the youth division of the Center for American Progress, I invited one of my favorite authors, John Chait, to meet me. He’s a great guy, so we met and talked, and we had lunch together somewhere in Washington, DC.
At one point, I was complaining about how flawed America is and how important it is to fix it, and Chait, in his characteristically gentle manner, replied: A few generations ago, our ancestors lived in villages where strangers would come every now and then, plundering everything and killing everyone. that bad.
The problem isn’t that the United States is perfect. Chait doesn’t think the United States is perfect, and at the time he A book criticizing conservative economic policies But looking back at the conversation, it seems to me that Chait was trying to defuse the anger of a young, passionate wannabe intellectual who was chanting left-wing mantras rather than thinking things through.
Whenever I reflect on how my thinking has changed since I began writing professionally, I always remember that conversation, because I think it captures something important…
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