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Alec Appelbaum
Nov 26
Resetting to Reality

I salute Noah Smith for moral clarity and compelling writing - but I ask: which progressives does this paragraph mean to evoke? I recognize myself in the political label but not the attitudinal one…

Neither one seems to believe that effort matters. Progressives believe — or claim they believe — that educational outcomes are all due to structural inequalities in society, while rightists tend to believe that inborn talent rules everything.3
Noah Smith
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