Compact

A governing consensus devoted to the common good.

[Matthew Schmitz @matthewschmitz]

Trotsky observed that an “army is always a copy of the society it serves”
https://t.co/EvUqv5YZVM

[Compact @compactmag]

Mohammed bin Salman promised Saudis prosperity, modernization, consumption, and security. His inability to win a decisive victory in Yemen is a sign of the broader limits of his revolution from above: https://t.co/w5lpw3vE7p

[Geoff Shullenberger @g_shullenberger]

"If governments cannot buy social peace anymore, they will impose it."
@EconDarioMarino with a level-headed account of the current crisis in Europe and its likely resolution: https://t.co/h5ZcX9LhCp

[Compact @compactmag]

"At stake in the current crisis is the legitimacy and sustainability of Western Europe’s political and economic model."
@EconDarioMarino on how Europe's ballooning debt constrains its response to the current protests:
https://t.co/q6wNQoKxlb

[Compact @compactmag]

“The maidens of Jerusalem didn’t go to the vineyards alone, and today’s young singles shouldn’t have to face the dating market alone either.”
Ezra Seplowitz and Matthew Minsk on why matchmaking is better than Hinge:
https://t.co/HehLBdYWt6

[Ashley Frawley @AshleyAFrawley]

For generations, getting married and starting a family were key to becoming an adult. Now we treat them as things you do after adulthood is established.

And now neither seems to be happening. Maybe it's time we took a cue from religious communities.

https://t.co/uI0uhWz1ft

[Matthew Schmitz @matthewschmitz]

Matchmakers are beating the dating recession
https://t.co/pMNQzhCU4Q

[Geoff Shullenberger @g_shullenberger]

“If you would entrust your hopes for lifelong companionship to an algorithm, you shouldn’t be afraid to listen to family and friends who have your interests at heart.”

Ezra Seplowitz and Matthew Mintz on what America can learn from Jewish matchmaking: https://t.co/6bJYIte52o

[Geoff Shullenberger @g_shullenberger]

Gil Durán’s “The Nerd Reich” has been hailed as “stunning” and “transfixing"; I haven't seen a single negative review of it. In fact, it’s a bad book that explains basically nothing about the “tech right.”
https://t.co/3MrIrzi4e2

[Matthew Schmitz @matthewschmitz]

Marijuana use among parents of minor children has spiked to over 5 percent
https://t.co/MBorqtrzyh

[Geoff Shullenberger @g_shullenberger]

The effects of the legalization of vices like weed and gambling are provoking a backlash—even in Massachussets. To meet the moment, liberals must update their laissez-faire attitudes, says @ehaspel:
https://t.co/LEPBUzf8dA

[Compact @compactmag]

Public opinion is turning against vices like weed and gambling, but liberal politicians remain mostly unwilling to reconsider laissez-faire policies.
That needs to change, argues @ehaspel: https://t.co/YnrlThs443

[Geoff Shullenberger @g_shullenberger]

Published two weeks ago, just as relevant: https://t.co/Hphm72bt19

[Geoff Shullenberger @g_shullenberger]

In 1969, Martin Sklar offered a theory of the “disaccumulation of capital”—the disappearance of human labor from the production process.

Sklar's account of the liberatory promise and looming peril of automation has new relevance, argues @JohnBJudis:
https://t.co/Q7vwoA5Ndp

[Ashley Frawley @AshleyAFrawley]

"We may be at one of those historical crossroads from which America will emerge a very different country."

@JohnBJudis for @compactmag

https://t.co/P8XilygfOV

[Matthew Schmitz @matthewschmitz]

Cristian Mungiu came to prominence for a film about life under an anti-abortion dictatorship.

His latest film, “Fjord,” exposes the intolerance of the liberal, secular West.
https://t.co/g2p2gnmq7i

[Compact @compactmag]

AI promises to upend the capitalist order by massively reducing the need for human labor—a prospect explored by Martin Sklar in 1969. @JohnBJudis revisits Sklar’s prescient argument:
https://t.co/bdBs4Jp9IV

[john milbank @johnmilbank3]

The Bleak Truth Behind France’s Riots https://t.co/Gg75HFiYNu

[John B. Judis @JohnBJudis]

How AI Threatens Capitalism https://t.co/q3ZReGkwHy

[Geoff Shullenberger @g_shullenberger]

Martin Sklar’s “On the Proletarian Revolution and the End of Political Economy” is an obscure 1969 contribution to early left-wing debates about automation and cybernetics.

But it is massively relevant again, argues @JohnBJudis:
https://t.co/Q7vwoA5Ndp