Sowatabout Osawatomie? William Voegeli makes six (6) fresh, good points about Obama’s big Kansas voice-finding speech … I especially admire Point #3. There really wasn’t a whole lot in the speech about the role of labor unions in restoring equality/the middle class/mobility was there? … It’s almost as if Obama thinks private sector Wagner act unions are 1) doomed 2) politically toxic or 3) unnecessary in the coming age of benevolent paternalistic charity capitalists! … P.S.: Abandoning unions would of course fit in all too well with Tom Edsall’s “abandoning white working class” thesis. …
Update: It’s a bigger Osawatomess than we thought! Kinsley on the dangers of conflation. …