http://teodesian.net//posts/dfd0fee8-13f7-11ec-bdd7-a9e64eb922d8?format=xml teodesian.net : /posts/dfd0fee8-13f7-11ec-bdd7-a9e64eb922d8 en 2026-04-09T08:42:32 2026-04-09T08:42:32 /favicon.ico http://teodesian.net 32 32 teodesian.net favicon http://teodesian.net/posts/dfd0fee8-13f7-11ec-bdd7-a9e64eb922d8 The post-New Deal new normal, then, is very similar to the pre-New Deal old normal. The present is not a rerun of the age of the age of robber barons after the Civil War, but of the subsequent age in which university-credentialed corporate elites have usually favored free markets and free love and freedom from organized labor, while working-class populations, white and nonwhite, have typically favored a mix of moral traditionalism with pro-labor protectionism in economic policy.

This is not the second Gilded Age. It is the second Jazz Age. And from the perspective of America’s disfranchised and alienated working-class majority of all races, that is bad enough. ]]> doge http://teodesian.net/posts/dfd0fee8-13f7-11ec-bdd7-a9e64eb922d8 2020-08-16T12:08:34 http://teodesian.net/posts/1597579714 The post-New Deal new normal, then, is very similar to the pre-New Deal old normal. The present is not a rerun of the age of the age of robber barons after the Civil War, but of the subsequent age in which university-credentialed corporate elites have usually favored free markets and free love and freedom from organized labor, while working-class populations, white and nonwhite, have typically favored a mix of moral traditionalism with pro-labor protectionism in economic policy.

This is not the second Gilded Age. It is the second Jazz Age. And from the perspective of America’s disfranchised and alienated working-class majority of all races, that is bad enough. ]]> doge http://teodesian.net/posts/1597579714 2020-08-16T12:08:34