No Going Back
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Her utopia is impossible. His golden age is gone. What if neither the future we imagine nor the past we remember is available to us?
To see why, consider a window.
You’ve heard of the Overton Window. It’s the range of ideas the public will tolerate at a given moment. Inside it are the policies a politician can propose without losing the next election.
Outside lies the unthinkable.
Joseph Overton, a policy analyst in Michigan, sketched the idea in the 1990s. Activists on both sides have used it ever since. Shove it left. Shove it right. Try to make…
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