On Friday, Matt Bruenig responded in our back-and-forth about the exportability of Nordic social democracy. He made basically four claims I want to address:

1. That the Nordics really do have “hefty” rural populations, so I’m wrong that they’re…

Noah Smith has a good new article at Bloomberg View. I think he’s spot on on almost everything says here about the need for policies that work to undo much of the…

Matt Bruenig wrote a piece today arguing that, well, here’s his title:

I’ve spent too much time recently disagreeing with Matt Bruenig about whether or not Nordic policies can be transplanted into the United States…

Matt Bruenig has responded to my piece critiquing his piece claiming that smallness makes welfare states harder to maintain. Yeesh. That’s some back and forth. And if it seems especially hard to follow, it’s because Matt Bruenig isn’t quite following normal etiquette for a debate…