jeffreyboone.bsky.social
Juarez/El Paso; NYC by marriage; Romania when possible. Social worker/librarian/grad student manqué
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Just finished this & it’s striking how things do not change: austerity/moral hazard ideology in England was a big driver in making the Irish potato famine so much worse.
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And a change in vocabulary—‘amnesty’ is guilt-laden, but it’s more like…imploring people to come clean your house, then claiming stand your ground law & thrashing them. Who’s the guiltier party?
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Matthew Taylor’s pod series on the NAR is very well done, particularly eps 3, 1, 5. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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I’ve yet to read Globalists, but found Crack-Up Capitalism excellent & this even better—so many 70s/80s/90s hits that you’d be familiar with.
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You’ve probably already read, but this is right up this alley: the merging of hard borders, hard currency, hardwired cultural differences (IQ, Bell Curve, etc.), & hard times (apocalyptic violent vibe) in the formation of the modern right. Very engaging.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Excellent reading of what may be Segal’s most compelling story here—chilling stuff. www.newyorker.com/podcast/fict... (also here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... )
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Reading Quinn Slobodian’s Hayek’s Bastards, & it’s very good on this—the long tradition of IQ/intelligence/race ‘science’ conveniently explaining one’s place at the top.
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El Paso in particular—Bishop Seitz, Annunciation House, Hope Border Institute, Las Americas, Estrella del Paso—so many solid Catholic orgs. A model for grassroots church work.
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this quote minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/09/l...
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To be clear: This is how ICE does things on the regular. Arrest first, worry about the details later, make people suffer in detention without access to counsel or family in a faraway prison—precisely what Mahmoud Khalil has been made to endure.
At great cost, Yunseo Chung blew up that scheme.
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Re formational/class priors, Barro’s dad teaches at Harvard, is a Distinguished Fellow in Economic Thought at Heritage.
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Shieh went from Phillips Academy to an Ivy—peak privilege.
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💯 If New Yorkers (incl upper-class people who move there in their 20s) ever got out of their zone they’d find so many US cities >100k are plurality non-white & full of original things. (Married a SoCal New Yorker after years in El Paso TX & Grand Rapids MI.)
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the NYT has problems institutionally and with ownership, but also Kahn is just an exceptionally bad editor and leader. I saw him give a speech at the funeral of a staff member who had committed suicide that was *all about how great the Times was doing*
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Great book—and the podcast series is almost better, production quality is 👍. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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An ICE spokesperson attacks Judge Murphy, saying "this judge wants these criminals, these rapists, murderers, out on the streets."
That's a staggering insult to a federal judge trying to ensure that ICE follows his court order — which did NOT bar deportation or detention!