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When we speak of most Democrats as liberals and on the left, most Republicans as conservatives and on the right, and some legislators as moderates and in the middle, we have in mind a geometric representation of policy or ideological views.  We think of legislators as distributed across a line or dimension. In recent Congresses, the parties have been sharply divided with very little overlap between the parties on the liberal-conservative dimension (see Note 1).

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A little while back I remember Gasda telling me that I should just crank stuff out, that’s what the newsletter format is for essentially, it doesn’t really matter if the material is that deep, people just eat it up anyway, the readers love eating whatever shit, and this includes myself, since I pay for the “Writer’s Diary” he writes on Substack under the pseudonym “Novalis,” in fact it’s the only Substack or podcast I actually pay for, and he charges more for it than I do for mine.

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You know the minute you walk into this elegant little yakitori shop that you're going to eat well. Owner Katsunori Yashima is SERIOUS about his yakitori, and no matter how many meals you've already eaten when you walk in the door, near midnight, you're instantly hungry. It smells like chicken, like meat, like charcoal and like sake, which is what creates the steam. The chicken is fantastic - every part is here - along with vegetables, velvety beef tongue, and pork belly that slides easily down the throat.

Among media and academic elites there are two warring tendencies: a conformism which adopts the rhetoric of social justice, and a “contrarian” nonconformism. There is something contrarian about all serious thinking, which opposes the dominant opinion in the name of the pursuit of truth. There is also the risk, however, of contrarianism becoming so oriented around the negation of the dominant opinion that it accepts its premises. Then it would become internal to the dominant opinion, rather than a form of opposition.

(As always, I encourage you, if you like my writing but wish an editor would “tone it down,” to indulge in some of my books, in which a sober editor has done just that.) I love Daniel Clowes’s new graphic novel Monica, but I don’t understand all of it. In part, this is because I’ve only had a week or two with the book, and in part because some aspects may be literally ununderstandable.

Before we dive into this week’s topic, I wanted to revisit last week’s artificial sweeteners post. I wanted to say, first off, that I am grateful to have friends in the same field as me who also happen to be registered dietitians. It is important for me to say that artificial sweeteners shouldn’t be painted as inherently bad. They’re not. Plenty of people with metabolic disease or diabetes rely on these to avoid glucose spikes or weight gain.

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