Marshall Herskovitz

1) Worth reading this cynical essay on AI replacing writers as much for what it doesn't say than what it does. Raskin is so apparently captured by neoliberal thinking that in all his arguments pro and con he never once considers that writing is a job, like millions of-- www.thefp.com/p/the-last-e...

5) has prevailed by the fact that our richest and most powerful men are devising ways to eliminate humans altogether, and our politicians are doing nothing about it. Our most powerful corporations have done everything they could to make humans worthless before AI; that's why--

1) Worth reading this cynical essay on AI replacing writers as much for what it doesn't say than what it does. Raskin is so apparently captured by neoliberal thinking that in all his arguments pro and con he never once considers that writing is a job, like millions of-- www.thefp.com/p/the-last-e...

3) past, first, lots of folks in the rust belt will tell you that didn't work out so well, but, more important, machines in the past were designed to replace humans in particular jobs, not all jobs. The essence of the American experiment was to create a society--

1) Worth reading this cynical essay on AI replacing writers as much for what it doesn't say than what it does. Raskin is so apparently captured by neoliberal thinking that in all his arguments pro and con he never once considers that writing is a job, like millions of-- www.thefp.com/p/the-last-e...

1) Jonathan Kaufman comprehensively deconstructs the terrible damage done by neoliberalism, which GE CEO Jack Welch essentially defined in 2009 as the "single-minded pursuit-- www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/o...

2) of profit and shareholder value" with no regard for the common good. As Kaufman notes, even many builders of the neoliberal project now admit it has gone too far. Welch, who invented mass layoffs, came--

1) The moral collapse of the great law firm Paul Weiss perfectly illustrates the fatal difference between capitalism and neoliberalism. Famous for decades for its groundbreaking pro-bono, pro-social victories, the firm-- www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...

4) of the firm had been so hollowed out that its loyalty to big money now exceeded its century-old values. This is America today. We have a values problem more than an economic one. Profit without responsibility to the common good is a cancer. And it is a failure--

1) The moral collapse of the great law firm Paul Weiss perfectly illustrates the fatal difference between capitalism and neoliberalism. Famous for decades for its groundbreaking pro-bono, pro-social victories, the firm-- www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...

2) "did well by doing good." Its partners made an average of $2.5 million a year, putting them among less than a tenth of one percent of all earners. Capitalism at its best. But in the neoliberal world we now inhabit $2.5 million a year for doing what you love is shameful, not nearly--

1) Further evidence that a growing part of the Democratic coalition has disconnected from reality. The activist screaming in Wiener's face crossed the line from political speech to physical threat. (A threat against a pro-trans candidate-- www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/u...

1) A righteous and necessary Democratic populist economic movement is in danger of being hijacked by extremists who espouse insanity already rejected by 90% of Americans. Dems must decide if they're willing to do the hard work of saving America-- www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/o...

1) Today is a day to teach and remember. First and foremost the heroism of those - many our fathers and grandfathers - who waded into hell in order to save freedom from the forces of tyranny. But we must also teach and remember that millions--

3) planes, hundreds of millions of tons of supplies. This was America 82 years ago. Capable of rising to any task. So this is also a day to look in the mirror and ask--

1) Today is a day to teach and remember. First and foremost the heroism of those - many our fathers and grandfathers - who waded into hell in order to save freedom from the forces of tyranny. But we must also teach and remember that millions--

1) Piece notes today's average CEO pay is 465 times what workers make. Not noted is that in 1965 - during America's greatest period of growth, when the world's greatest middle class was built - average CEO pay was only 30 times-- www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/b...

3) silently transformed into a new Feudalism, with worker-serfs owing fealty to their aristocratic lords. None of this was how capitalism worked before neoliberalism (defined by its originators as the pursuit of profit without regard for the common good)--

1) Piece notes today's average CEO pay is 465 times what workers make. Not noted is that in 1965 - during America's greatest period of growth, when the world's greatest middle class was built - average CEO pay was only 30 times-- www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/b...