Geoff Kabaservice

Director of political studies at @NiskanenCenter. On Twitter, I speak for myself.

[Geoff Kabaservice @RuleandRuin]

@davidfrum A beautiful remembrance of a man whose memory remains a blessing, and one who knew well that monumentalism in a developer is no virtue

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“Form a line to the throne!”

https://t.co/Qu8Y7H4E87

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@TheNewPornos at @930Club last night. This line lands differently in DC now: “It was crime at the time but the laws we changed ‘em…”

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Will our tech overlords follow the pattern of past elites? My essay responding to a provocative New Right view of American history: https://t.co/Q58ZdElAUg

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@mattyglesias makes a useful corrective against the vulgar Broockmanite contention that self-described moderates don’t want moderation; they are eclectic but have coherent views on distinct issues

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The New York Times is here to tell you that pop and rap are the only kinds of music that ever mattered

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@aaron_renn

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How I feel about the current political situation: 1) There isn’t anything I can do about it, so I may as well watch and take notes; 2) Despite the chaos it’s not wrong to enjoy what aesthetic pleasure you can while you can, including the delicious burrata salad in front of you

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@Chris_arnade I feel bad now that I missed "Dignity" when it came out. Remedying that immediately

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This is a terrific post, full of hard-won insight about American culture -- and also a warning about the dangers of a society polarized by education

[Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 @Chris_arnade]

You can’t have a functioning county unless citizens share a thick cultural identity — for the US that’s the American Dream — a prosperity theology built from Western European ideas

https://t.co/IuSrSRkTNn

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@RadioFreeTom Ben fatto, amico mio!

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Say what you will about this Supreme Court, it’s the one branch of government that still affirms compromise and bipartisanship as constitutional necessities

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5. I lean toward the brokenists in this debate, but Damon Linker offers useful caution against the kind of cultural despair that can become "a breeding ground for excessive, almost utopian hopes for the future" that would a better world on the rubble

https://t.co/0fNNu1vpoc

[Geoff Kabaservice @RuleandRuin]

1. My colleague @lindsey_brink identifies another "intellectual fault line" dividing the center: disagreement over the severity of the problems confronting contemporary liberal societies and the connection between those problems and the political crisis
https://t.co/qj7FavWW8S

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4. This division arguably appeared at @MunSecConf with brokenist Mark Carney seeing an age of "rupture" vs. anti-brokenist Keir Starmer insisting "we must not disregard everything that has sustained us for the last 80 years" -- many such examples!

https://t.co/HXkV5q9jby

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A sad-making landmark of cultural decline

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

At the bottom of the front page of today's Washington Post. For the first Sunday in eons, there are no book reviews in the paper.

[Geoff Kabaservice @RuleandRuin]

@Tyler_A_Harper @TheAtlantic @BiellaColeman Hers struck me as one of the more rational and good-faith critiques of your article. Those of us on the other side of this divide will have to respond accordingly. (Congrats again on your piece, btw, it truly was a tremendous work of analytical journalism)

[Geoff Kabaservice @RuleandRuin]

This pan of @Tyler_A_Harper's phenomenal piece for @TheAtlantic is just one example of an intellectual fault line dividing opponents of populist authoritarianism: Should we refrain from criticizing the left during this emergency? Or is such critique necessary for liberal revival?

[Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @BiellaColeman]

@Tyler_A_Harper I think this line of critique matters. But in the current climate, it risks amplifying the very hysteria it seeks to challenge. This strikes me as both the wrong moment and the wrong medium to try to shift people’s thinking on what is, in fact, an important issue