The Case for Thinking Bigger
by Matthew Yglesias
Recommended by Adam Ozimek
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Finance, Politics, and Social Sciences.
What would actually make America great: more people. If the most challenging crisis in living memory has shown us anything, it's that America has lost the will and the means to lead. We can't compete with the huge population clusters of the global marketplace by keeping our population static or letting it diminish, or with our crumbling transit and...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Finance, Politics, and Social Sciences.
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Adam Ozimek
“Finally finished One Billion Americans. Amazing, big, bold, beautiful book. I don’t endorse every policy but that’s not the point. The point is we need to think bigger (population), and that is correct.”
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Consider The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. Recommended by 8 sources.
“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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