Slow Boring — Archive

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Sunday Thread + Mailbag
What you missed at the National Conservatism Conference
Big names pushed a grand design, but internal contradictions and ideological fractures lay just beneath the surface.
Why “Moneyball” worked while DOGE failed
Plus Greater France, great nuclear programs, and a great House recruit
Thursday discussion thread
Birth rates fell, tuition rose, and now colleges face an enrollment cliff.
A boring theory of the populist right
A large minority of the public wants tougher policies on crime and immigration
Has Denver’s minimum wage gone too far?
Rising costs are squeezing the city’s independent restaurants
I’ve been right about some things
Is Matt Yglesias always wrong? An investigation
Tuesday discussion thread
A California city’s Trumpward swing
How the stock market learned to love Trump
Opportunism, corruption, and Wile E. Coyote
Denver’s restaurants are dying
Rising costs put independent full-service dining at a disadvantage
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Saturday discussion thread
Three phases of affordable housing
A week in housing and a weekend of recommendations
What makes sense in ’90s nostalgia
Plus obviousness, Mayor Pete’s Black support, and the madness of Bluesky
Waning days of a dying empire
Is this what collapse looks like from the inside?