![]() ![]() His most recent book, “One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger,” contends that the only way the United States can remain economically and culturally “number one”-his term-is to triple the country’s population to a billion. He is, moreover, one of several journalists on the left recently to leave their employers for reasons of unwanted editorial control. Yglesias’s views, but he is a lucid writer and enough of a contrarian for even a conservative like me to appreciate and learn from. NATIONAL BESTSELLER What would actually make. Yglesias announced-because in the era of social media you announce these things-that he was leaving Vox and starting his own venture on Substack, a subscription-based online platform. Read One Billion Americans The Case for Thinking Bigger by Matthew Yglesias available from Rakuten Kobo. Bush administration continue to the present. Written before the Obama presidency, the lines of thought and policy started during the George W. That venture, begun when Obama-era progressivism appeared to have vanquished all before it, was designed not to argue for liberal policies but patiently to “explain” them to a young and receptive online audience. Yglesias book was a timely read in the context of the Trump administration's forays into foreign policy, notably the Apbombing of Syrian chemical weapons capacity. Six years ago Matthew Yglesias co-founded the news and policy website Vox. ![]()
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