The Top 5: Election compact, Patrick Deneen, bad credit, marriage polarization
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Welcome to your weekly edition of the Top 5 articles we’ve read this week. Each week, we read dozens of articles in the hope we find essays and reporting that speak to big ideas, trends, future looks, and incredible human stories. We hope you enjoy our list, and do always let us know if you have a suggestion or a recommendation! Please also consider becoming a paid subscriber if this is one of those newsletters you open up all the time or look forward to each week.
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The Top 5 articles for your week:
“‘I Don’t Want to Violently Overthrow the Government. I Want Something Far More Revolutionary.’” (Ian Ward - Politico)
Because this article chronicles the influence of political philosopher Patrick Deneen on certain conservative circles.
“Now Political Polarization Comes for Marriage Prospects” (Lyman Stone and Brad Wilcox - The Atlantic)
Because “The most striking aspect of these trends is that the past decade has seen the sexes polarizing along ideological and political lines, a pattern that coincides with the rise of social media and the post-Trump political landscape. Young single men have been moving to the right, even as their female peers have been moving even further left.”
“The High Cost of Bad Credit” (Mya Frazier - NYT Magazine)
Because “In many ways, credit scores have become the arbiter of who gets to live the good life in America.”
“Out of the Wild” (Samuel Matlack - The New Atlantis)
Because Samuel Matlack argues that we’ve turned nature or the wilderness into an ideal that doesn’t include humans — and that has implications on environmentalism.
“This blue-state election compact could create a constitutional crisis” (Jason Willick -Washington Post)
Because there’s some new state legislation which prioritizes the popular vote over the electoral college.