Friday Readings: Let's Take a Break From The Insanity
A collection of pieces not focused on Joe, Kamala, or Trump
Jacob Siegel on “the whole of society” in Tablet.
To make sense of today’s form of American politics, it is necessary to understand a key term. It is not found in standard U.S. civics textbooks, but it is central to the new playbook of power: “whole of society.”
The term was popularized roughly a decade ago by the Obama administration, which liked that it…
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