links for 2008-04-26

• Popular Will by Jon Chait – TNR.com
  Delicious takedown of PC conservatism and the romanticized role of the white working class.
  (tags: economics inequality elitism chait tnr obama religion 08)
• EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect
  Ezra on the difference between Obama’s intellectual empathy, “I understand your argument,” and the empathy of Clinton/Reagan/Huckabee, “I understand your life.”
  (tags: empathy obama ezra.klein prospect 08)
• …My heart’s in Accra » Homophily, serendipity, xenophilia
  Brilliant, just brilliant.
  (tags: homophily ethan.zuckerman empathy)