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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Analyzing Biden's presidency, book bans, and more [1]

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Date: 2023-02-14  

At The Nation, John Nichols writes about Biden “embracing his inner FDR”:

What Biden outlined in his State of the Union address was a plan to temper the abuses of capitalism. And he labeled it as such. That’s a good start. Now, if only he would borrow another page from FDR and use his next State of the Union address to call for an Economic Bill of Rights. That’s what FDR did in 1944, when he rejected proposals for a return to economic “normalcy” after the upheavals of the Great Depression and World War II and said, instead, “We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.”

Meanwhile, on the Republican Party, Jamelle Bouie at The New York Times outlines its future:

Sanders attacked Biden as the “first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob that can’t even tell you what a woman is” and decried the “woke fantasies” of a “left-wing culture war.” Every day, she said, “we are told that we must partake in their rituals, salute their flags, and worship their false idols, all while big government colludes with big tech to strip away the most American thing there is — your freedom of speech.” Sanders’s folksy affect notwithstanding, this was harsh, hard and delivered with an edge. But then, there’s nothing wrong with giving a partisan and ideological State of the Union address — that is part of the point. The problem was that most of these complaints were unintelligible to anyone but the small minority of Americans who live inside the epistemological bubble of conservative media. Sanders’s response, in other words, was less a broad and accessible message than it was fan service for devotees of the Fox News cinematic universe and its related properties.

At The Atlantic, Margaret Atwood writes about book bans:

It’s shunning time in Madison County, Virginia, where the school board recently banished my novel The Handmaid’s Tale from the shelves of the high-school library. I have been rendered “unacceptable.” Governor Glenn Youngkin enabled such censorship last year when he signed legislation allowing parents to veto teaching materials they perceive as sexually explicit. This episode is perplexing to me, in part because my book is much less sexually explicit than the Bible, and I doubt the school board has ordered the expulsion of that.

On a final note, The Week has a rundown on the flying objects in the news:

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