Archive - The People's Line

The marketplace of ideas takes another L

Liberals are losing the argument, so Zack Beauchamp thinks they need to win with financing.

16 hrs ago •

Position polls do not indicate importance

A word on one of the most common ways to misread a poll.

Aug 19 •

Ukraine's crisis of confidence

Ukrainians are losing trust in its government to end the war.

Aug 16 •

Mamdani is winning the Democratic base

And no, the base of Democrats is not black voters.

Aug 13 •

Wealth inequality: the past, and the future

Part VI: The long future of capitalism.

Aug 9 •

Wealth inequality: the past, and the future

Part V: What would late capitalism actually look like?

Aug 5 •

Episode #6 8/4/2025

On wealth inequality, Matt Yglesias, and Sydney Sweeney.

Aug 5 •

34:10

Everyone cherry-picks the left

The right's Sydney Sweeney escort mission plays the same game that liberals play constantly!

Aug 1 •

July 2025

Would Yglesias have opposed genocide under Harris?

Democratic loyalists are happy to join the antiwar movement when their leaders aren't in power.

Jul 31 •

Wealth inequality: the past, and the future

Part IV: "But history has proven Marx wrong!" Nope.

Jul 30 •

Wealth inequality: the past, and the future

Part III: Liberal objections to Marx's law of capital accumulation, debunked.

Jul 27 •

Hulkamania is dead

Good riddance to one of professional wrestling's greatest icons.

Jul 24 •

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