Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@JeffreyASachs that was precisely my subtweet, yes — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

An astonishing number of people find this argument persuasive: 1) Bad things are happening 2) Therefore, all things are bad — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattBruenig i'll answer your question when you answer mine 😃 — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattBruenig but i'm still waiting for an answer: do you think the life of an american is morally more significant… https://t.co/VRsJ3TXzA2 — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattBruenig seems untrue given how bad those things are, and given the fact of actual political arrangements — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattBruenig we're way off your initial argument, which was that it was literally a moral "nothingburger" https://t.co/C9ujpGFDfy — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattBruenig i'm assuming you think us inequality causes suffering, ergo, on cosmopolitan theory it is bad and not… https://t.co/xWAUIGXQ47 — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattBruenig nothing, but that doesn't make it not-bad. the whole point of cosmopolitan theory is that all sufferin… https://t.co/7EyxOXevJS — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattBruenig you're asking me to explain how us inequality does more harm than good, so i'll refer you to your own blog — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattBruenig i'm asking a simple question: do you think welfare of persons outside the us is of equal moral concern… https://t.co/5LSoAB8FzR — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattBruenig but you're not attacking what actual cosmopolitans believe, you are attacking a straw man you've set up and lit aflame — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattBruenig and if you assume that things that produce us inequalities aren't always the same thing as things that… https://t.co/eIa6xVmGPd — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattBruenig of course not, they have relevance if they affect aggregate utility, which i assume you think they do — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattBruenig i'm asking if you have an argument against global basic structure (in rawlsian terms). you don't seem to! — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattBruenig this is an absurd position that no one holds. judging global system by global outcomes =/= saying us i… https://t.co/CntvWMRFbH — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@dinapomeranz @charlesjkenny Agree 100 percent, very important point — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@matthewstoller is your argument that the people who built eu, bretton woods, world bank, nato, and un were not elites — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattBruenig ambiguous given iraq reference, but cosmopolitan view is what really matters on these issues. do you agree? — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattBruenig a) global institutions as they exist are basically good b) political movements that want to tear them… https://t.co/dO0cYz24ls — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattBruenig believe it or not, my tweets are not really about this hobbyhorse of yours — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@BarkerTV it's bad, we should fix it — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

me, dumb, boring: the world is safer, healthier, and less poor than ever you, smart, exciting: burn it down, we need a totally new politics — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

That doesn't mean there weren't unforgivable errors and injustices. But they don't outweigh the aggregate benefits — or come close, really. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

The notion that the post-Cold War elite consensus has "failed" to produce better outcomes for the world is on-face ridiculous — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

This really cannot be said enough https://t.co/E6K4f4zu45 https://t.co/wb7jJIlB1b — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

RT @SarahAWildman: Plus ça change https://t.co/OtVZdlT4Xh — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I spoke with @steve_vladeck about Michael Flynn’s many, many legal problems https://t.co/dmjkqeRvCe — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

If "equal to the moment" means "capitulating to the worst parts of Western political culture," then yes, this is co… https://t.co/FTOTbe8WIC — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@DenisonBe @charlie_simpson @LorenRaeDeJ @RadhaKIyengar i'm always here for a mara jade reference — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

"80 sets of invisible eyes rolling": senators unimpressed by White House North Korea brief https://t.co/bQis9YLEAB — PolitiTweet.org