Alex Skopic
@alexskopic
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Associate editor @curaffairs, occasional writer @proteanmag @clereviewbooks
New Orleans, LA
Joined April 2025
Special thanks to @doctorow for bringing his custom "Enshittification" buttons by Current Affairs World Headquarters - interview coming soon!
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I wrote about how socialist mayoral candidates' "cops and more" public safety programs rely on the conventional but false wisdom that police are good at (or even dedicated to) dealing with violent crime. They're not. https://t.co/ZpNgf8C5ny
currentaffairs.org
Prominent mayoral candidates are distancing themselves from “defund” and instead offering “cops and more” public safety plans. But that approach neglects the victims of police brutality and risks...
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NEW from @lefty_md: Socialist mayoral candidates have been making concessions on policing and punishment recently, backing down from "defund." But police violence is still a deadly threat, and there's no reason to apologize for telling the truth.
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Argentina shows a time old truth: Libertarianism goes against human nature and doesn't work in practice w/ @alexskopic Then we have @HartzellForKC to talk about how he is taking on gerrymandering and fighting for progressive politics in Missouri @ 6CT! https://t.co/Q1hpUg7Xb5
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Will be live on @LeftReckoning in about an hour and a half, don't miss it! https://t.co/BFhraxLTK9
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NEW: POLITICO obtained private group chat messages between leaders of Young Republican groups across the country. They talk about putting their opponents in gas chambers, raping their enemies and refer to Black people as “monkey” and “the watermelon people” https://t.co/Ba28MweLYa
politico.com
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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The takeover of national politics by Pynchon characters continues apace
Astonishingly, this woman's name is Rhodesia Ransom. She's a democrat in the California legislature. I'm genuinely curious as to why on earth her parents thought RHODESIA was an appropriate name.
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If you pick up the newest print edition of Current Affairs you get a host of incredible essays including the piece on the horror of meat I was lucky enough to co-write with @alexskopic
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To be fair this is also what cops say when they see a small dog
“It’s shaken me to my core,” a lieutenant said of Mamdani’s unexpected victory in June. “The absolute dread I feel is palpable.”
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Ryan Ruby on Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel: ‘Pynchon has indeed come to tell us something about twenty-first century America – about its particular forms of labour, distributions of capital, and the political order that is crumbling atop them both.’ https://t.co/AnvjprZnqk
newleftreview.org
On Thomas Pynchon.
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The United States will become the world’s second multi-quadrillion dollar economy after the Argentinian peso finally secures a long overdue win. Argentina will become the first, obviously. Very exciting that we’re getting in on the ground floor of the next global reserve currency
The @USTreasury has concluded 4 days of intensive meetings with Minister @LuisCaputoAR and his team in DC. We discussed Argentina’s strong economic fundamentals, including structural changes already underway that will generate significant dollar-denominated exports and foreign
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Outstanding profile of the “Milei miracle” by Alex in @curaffairs. “All of the trite, hackneyed lines that used to scold socialists apply better to Milei’s libertarianism. It might sound nice on paper, but it can’t work in the real world. You run out of other people’s money.”
NEW: I wrote about the predictable collapse of Javier Milei's so-called "economic miracle," and the spectacle of a free-market libertarian accepting a bailout from the U.S. government. 🔗
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NEW: I wrote about the predictable collapse of Javier Milei's so-called "economic miracle," and the spectacle of a free-market libertarian accepting a bailout from the U.S. government. 🔗
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"The novel’s focus on the rise of global fascism lets even the inattentive know that, whatever the ostensible setting, this is a novel of the moment." Justin St. Clair on Thomas Pynchon’s new novel "Shadow Ticket."
lareviewofbooks.org
Justin St. Clair reviews Thomas Pynchon’s new novel “Shadow Ticket.”
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Only a couple pages into Shadow Ticket and Pynchon already hit us with two incredible names
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