THE MADGETTE

TENDING DEMOCRACY

• Six Thoughts About a Big Night for Democrats and Democracy PersuasionTrump era ends, but no return to old normal
• After the Wave, Populism Will Linger PersuasionStructural dysfunction persists beyond the wave
• The Midterm Mandate Mirage City JournalPunishing one side isn't endorsing the other's extremes
• How Republicans Lost the Gerrymandering War The AtlanticGerrymandering war: how redistricting overreach backfired
• How the New Right Failed The Free PressDouthat on why the new right failed
• Democrats Are Winning—and Still at War with One Another The Free PressVictory won't heal Democrats' internal divisions
• Rod Dreher: To Win Again, Republicans Must Make Enemies on the Right The Free PressWarns GOP against white identity politics after defeat
• The Good Fight Club: Trump Rebuked PersuasionMounk, Diamond, Hochschild on MAGA's end or pause
• From a Life-Long Republican Contemplating the Election Results Volokh ConspiracyLife-long Republican reflects, via Kipling, on the results
• The Banker Trying To Save Liberalism PersuasionCarney gives liberalism a moral core against populism

AGAINST POVERTY & SUFFERING

• Democrats Will Likely Disappoint Voters Soon The AtlanticAffordability promises and the cost of not delivering
• Revenge of the White Working Class The AtlanticWorking-class swing and what comes next
• It’s the Morality, Stupid The AtlanticVoters repudiating cruelty as a motive

FINANCE & ECONOMY

• ‘The money didn’t work’: Big Tech’s $600mn midterm campaign falls flat Financial TimesBig Tech's $600mn midterm spend failed; AI backlash
• Dot-Com Lessons for the AI Bubble Project SyndicateDebt-financed AI boom echoes dot-com mechanics
• The ECB Must Bail Out France Project SyndicateECB, TPI and the French sovereign debt mechanism
• China Is Defanging the Dollar, Not Dethroning It Project SyndicateRenminbi settlement as sanctions workaround, with costs
• A Fatal Challenge to Mainstream Economics Project SyndicateMainstream economics' intellectual foundation has collapsed
• Are economists declining in status? Marginal RevolutionCowen on the declining status of economists
• The economics of tips Marginal RevolutionLinked payroll data reveals what tips actually do
• Ireland fact of the day Marginal RevolutionIreland's tax base rests on three companies
• Democratic wave keeps US wealth taxes alive despite California loss Financial TimesWealth tax politics after California's Prop 40 loss
• Trade and the end of antiquity, or did Islam serve to deglobalize the world? Marginal RevolutionTrade evidence on whether Islam deglobalized antiquity's end
• Oligarchic World Order Project SyndicateOligarchs lead states holding 60% of world GDP

LAW & COURTS

• Court to hear argument on whether and when federal officials can be held liable for violations of the Constitution SCOTUSblogBivens liability for federal officers before the Court
• Will an ability to hold federal officers accountable survive this term? SCOTUSblogOnly civil remedy against federal officers may vanish
• Court seems poised to side with Catholic preschools in religious discrimination dispute SCOTUSblogCatholic preschools and Colorado's universal pre-K argument
• Are There No Limits to Religious Freedom? NY Review of BooksNYRB on limits of religious freedom and state funds
• Wise Words from Third Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas as to Access to Court Records Volokh ConspiracyJudge Bibas on public access to court records
• Is Montgomery affirmative action’s final chapter? SCOTUSblogMontgomery cert grant could end race-conscious admissions
• Poland’s Constitutional Civil War Project SyndicatePoland's constitutional tribunal as a battleground

IDEAS & LETTERS

• Good Institutions Require Good People Project SyndicateInstitutions fail without self-respecting, other-respecting people
• The Rise and Fall of Privacy Project SyndicatePrivacy as a historical achievement now eroding
• Hamilton’s Counter-Revolutionary Republicanism Law & LibertyHamilton's republicanism against the French Revolution
• Madison’s Toleration Law & LibertyMadison as hard-boiled defender of plural society
• The philosopher Bernard Williams refused every ism. That made him hard to pin down. And hard to refute Arts & Letters DailyBernard Williams refused every ism
• In defense of the dilettante. Unfairly dismissed as a dabbler, he is in fact a tonic for our overspecialized world Arts & Letters DailyDefense of the dilettante in an overspecialized age
• My very good Conversation with Richard Hanania Marginal RevolutionCowen and Hanania on Conrad's Nostromo
• The Conscious Pariah Lapham's QuarterlyArendt on Zionism, carefully traced

WORLD

• Serbia’s Graduation Day NY Review of BooksSerbian students topple Vučić at the ballot box
• Putin loses his Balkan Trojan horse Engelsberg IdeasPutin loses his Balkan Trojan horse in Serbia

SCIENCE

• The self-making world AeonLamarck's self-making organisms return to biology

MINNESOTA

• Mussels regaining a foothold in the upper Mississippi River after decades of decline MinnPostQuarter-century of mussel restoration is working
• Frazier to be next Hennepin County Attorney in a tight win for progressives MinnPostFrazier's narrow Hennepin County Attorney win
• Governor-elect Klobuchar promises to transform state government, grow economy Minnesota ReformerKlobuchar's plan to audit state programs for fraud

DIVERSIONS

• Hemingway’s lost generation turns 100 Engelsberg IdeasHemingway's lost generation at one hundred