"No longer a middle way, centrism has become ossified as an independent body of dogma, every bit as ideologically inflexible as its apparent rivals. Or perhaps "dogma" is the wrong word: what unites the political center, after all, is not so much a commitment to a set of identifiable political beliefs, as to an identifiable aesthetic – a dedication to politicians, or political institutions, who favor a certain neat look, a certain technocratic affect, a certain starry-eyed, Obamaesque rhetorical tone."

"The center has been radicalized – and this means that centrist politicians and social media accounts are becoming an increasingly severe disinformation threat. They might typically retain a sensible tone – but this should by no means assure anyone that they are conveying sensible content."

https://www.logically.ai/articles/the-center-cannot-hold

"On Twitter and Reddit, dozens of students are saying that their teachers are assigning the right-wing content, especially in required history, government, and economics classes. What was reported as a single instance of the videos being assigned as extra credit in an Ohio public-school district last October only scratched the surface of a much bigger phenomenon. According to the students I spoke to, PragerU’s content has been in public schools for years."

https://prospect.org/education/right-curriculum-how-prageru-infiltrates-schools/

"The free marketeers who oppose the Green New Deal would recognise this critique. They frequently complain about moral hazard and loose monetary policy, blaming the over-activity of the state for the emergence of ‘crony capitalism’. These arguments are generally pitted against those of social democrats, who respond that state intervention is necessary to mitigate the ups and downs of the business cycle. Both arguments have some merit. Excessive state intervention has distorted the operation of free market capitalism, transforming it into a financialised, monopolistic variant. However, without the interventions that have given rise to such a situation, the global economy would likely have collapsed with far-reaching political implications.

The apparent contradiction between these two arguments is, however, only superficial. Proponents of both perspectives rely upon the liberal notion that the political and the economic are somehow separate — that free markets exist as a self-regulating sphere, subject to greater or lesser levels of intervention from a central state."

https://progressive.international/blueprint/3490d76e-4864-446a-b941-c93446f3b227-grace-blakeley-the-future-will-be-planned/en

"In her brilliant book on the Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson describes a riot that broke out in Chicago, in 1951, when a Black family attempted to move into a white apartment building. After being driven from the apartment, white people destroyed everything the family owned, and over the course of the next day, the crowd grew to over 4,000, eventually burning down the entire building. White people would rather burn a building than see Black people live there."

https://www.inheritancemag.com/stories/why-i-stopped-talking-about-racial-reconciliation-and-started-talking-about-white-supremacy

" By 1951, the economist Erich Zimmermann noted that Britain had come closer than anywhere else on earth to presiding over the extinction of its own agriculture. This long history explains why Britain has fewer regional food varieties than its European neighbours. In 2005, Italy had 149 foods with protected geographical indication status, France 143, and Britain had only 29. By the beginning of the twentieth century, Britons ate beef from Argentina, butter from New Zealand, sugar from the West Indies, and bread from Ohio, but they did so with forks made in Sheffield, on plates made in Stoke-on-Trent, and in houses heated by burning coal from Northumberland.

According to Otter, if we want to understand the origins of our present system for growing and distributing food, we need to look at Britain rather than America, and to the nineteenth rather than the twentieth century. The extraordinary interconnected global system for growing, standardising, moving, and storing food developed by Britain differ only in degree rather than in kind from the food networks that structure our lives today."

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/04/how-the-british-empire-built-the-food-system-that-is-destroying-the-planet