The resurgence of the politics of inequality
David Wallace-Wells writes: Last week’s elections have hardened quickly into today’s broad strategic wisdom: American politics is now, above all, about affordability, sometimes also called “cost of living.” The terms imply a new political landscape, defined by challenges emerging in the aftermath of the pandemic emergency — inflation and interest rates, housing costs and grocery costs and energy costs — which politicians have been slow to acknowledge and policy slow to address. But there is another way of looking at…