The Dead Center

Introduction: The Dead Center

A Note to the Reader

Part I: Salvos Liberalism in Theory and Practice Why Liberals Pretend They Have No Power David Brooks' Capitalist Fatalism What Canada Can Teach Us About Liberals Everywhere

Part II: Bipartisan Bromides The Curse of Bipartisanship Liberalism's Veil of Ignorance 2004 Redux How Liberals Fell in Love with The West Wing The Never Trump Delusion

Part III: Dramatis Personae The Fraudulent Universalism of Barack Obama?co-authored with Nathan J. Robinson Justin Trudeau and the Politics of Spectacle Fear and LARPing on the Campaign Trail Farewell to Betomania Why The Pundit Class Loves Amy Klobuchar| Variations in B-Flat Minor Keir Starmer and the Genealogy of Centrist Non-Belief Joe Biden Is Not a Radical

Part IV: On the Media Manufacturing Consent, One Chyron at a Time The Agony and the Ecstasy of Chris Matthews All the President's Tweets Erasing the Working Class James Carville Will Never Stop Being Wrong The Progressive Era That Wasn't

Part V: All That's Solid... Savory Snacks for Social Justice The British Monarchy Will Not Survive Late Capitalism Barons of the Valley From New Deal to Nudge Neoliberalism? Never Heard of It.

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