Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think that to the extent one thinks of this as a worthy and noble mission in life, that reflects well on the professors who work at those institutions. But to the extent one thinks of it as a kind of bad mission, that reflects poorly on said professors. — PolitiTweet.org

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There are a lot of different institutions in the world and those institutions perform a lot of different functions. One particular set of institutions in the United States performs the function of selling very expensive degrees primarily to the children of rich parents. — PolitiTweet.org

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The other day I mentioned something offhandedly about college professors that I guess was unclearly written so I thought I should probably try to say it more clearly. — PolitiTweet.org

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Is Superman a proponent of Marxism-Leninism? In this thread, I — https://t.co/0rx7wXOCu1 — PolitiTweet.org

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This George Santos fellow doesn’t seem to be entirely on the level. — PolitiTweet.org

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We need a bipartisan choice for Speaker who can bridge divides and bring people together. https://t.co/vBVSAcDP7L — PolitiTweet.org

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57 — my really weird missing city is Atlanta, someone should invite me to do something in Atlanta. — PolitiTweet.org

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@GilrayJames The article is in the New Yorker! — PolitiTweet.org

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Secondarily, something we see in a minority of American cities is that endemic housing scarcity creates a perverse political economy where straightforward improvements generate opposition because of housing spillovers. https://t.co/IRZz8tznTD https://t.co/L9IEOHMiUe — PolitiTweet.org

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The reason the UK should allow more housebuilding IMO isn't especially about agglomeration, it's that if more housing were built then British people could consume more housing and raise their living standards. — PolitiTweet.org

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@justupthepike Would be better with more housing https://t.co/poDZ1vJQ31 — PolitiTweet.org

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A big part of the current pressure at the border is specifically people fleeing Latin American leftist regimes, which has traditionally been a cause US conservatives sympathize with. — PolitiTweet.org

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There's been a total collapse of reading comprehension on the internet — this New Yorker article is *criticizing* the group of people it is writing about. https://t.co/jsfW8iAF5J — PolitiTweet.org

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@Bernstein As is often the case with nostalgia, it's a mash-up of different things — they're pining for a combination of 1950s family life and 1990s raunch culture that never existed and never could have existed. — PolitiTweet.org

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My movie pick that I haven't seen on anyone else's list is "Not Okay," a fun streamer comedy that actually addresses contemporary life in an accessible but perceptive way. https://t.co/YQlZ5n7d3k https://t.co/0HIkvnyT8B — PolitiTweet.org

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@IBD_ECarson Mass market consumer brands keep us together! — PolitiTweet.org

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When I was an intern at Rolling Stone in 2002 we'd have Christina Aguilera taking her shorts off on the cover, but also a "special report" about how the Boy Scouts should be less homophobic. https://t.co/PbGmacKjQT — PolitiTweet.org

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Internet porn disrupted the traditional Horny Bundle that melded the commercial imperative to appeal to young male tastes with the continued hegemonic political power of NYC-based media elites. — PolitiTweet.org

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We have to go back https://t.co/Qk0rvQ9mlM — PolitiTweet.org

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I think it tends to show that we need more harm reduction content for young men — used to be you could pick up an issue of Maxim and lad out without taking things too far. — PolitiTweet.org

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I doubt this will convince very many people. https://t.co/kgAmy8rvvE — PolitiTweet.org

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This is totally deranged. Why not let parents decide for themselves what they think it's appropriate to take their kids to see? — PolitiTweet.org

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It's the year-end content everyone has been waiting for — take the Claire Denis Pill! Voyage to Pandora! https://t.co/YQlZ5n7d3k — PolitiTweet.org

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Communist Party Riksdag members 100 years ago, back when even Swedish Communists dressed very formally. https://t.co/YKfX0kNlgr — PolitiTweet.org

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Most poplar world leaders https://t.co/QcJeNDZUFE — PolitiTweet.org

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Tweeting through the Twitter outage — PolitiTweet.org

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Incredibly alarming story https://t.co/2HwyTWuWHh https://t.co/Hzc8iSZ42R — PolitiTweet.org

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Ah — PolitiTweet.org

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@asymmetricinfo It does seem like a problem that it’s hard for an airline to credibly signal that it has incrementally better operational practices leading to incrementally more reliable service — price becomes the sole visible axis of competition for normal economy fliers. — PolitiTweet.org