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But I was wrong, and the story has a moral: Never underestimate the defensiveness of very rich people who believe they’re progressive and who are willing to give back in any way they can — except by surrendering any of their privileges, advantages, or immunities.
So apparently some famous writer was disgraced this week and a venerable literary organization asked me to fill in for him at a dinner to raise money for imperiled writers around the world.
I interviewed today for , and she got so busy discussing Amazon, taxes, contract law, public housing, facial recognition tech, billionaires, subways, jobs, ICE, wages, working-class New York, the 1920s, and trickle-down economics that clothing never came up.
Tfw when you’re on a panel next to a guy criticizing identity politics — and then you realize it’s actually a manel that embodies the reason identity politics is so necessary. https://t.co/VkRS2XX8mC
Whatever happens tonight, the results suggest a country that is on a knife’s edge — basically 50-50 — on the acceptability of racism, nativism, demagogy, lies, chauvinism, abuse of power, cruelty, and corruption.
This is amazing to watch. It is a reminder that government isn’t intrinsically boring. It’s made boring by boring people — and made interesting with wits and guts. https://t.co/8IpVajVZN4
It is no accident that we are having a conversation, finally, about whether we should even have billionaires in America at the very moment when billionaire encroachment is peaking.
