By: Noah Rothman - nationalreview.com - August 20, 2025

The new left-wing publication The Argument arrived on the intellectual scene this week to much fanfare. Armed with a solid masthead, a contributors list that includes more than a few household names (in this business, at least), and funded by deep pockets, the magazine promises readers an abundance of efforts to refine the oxymoronic concept of supply-side progressivism.

The magazine is up and running, and it is already challenging conventional left-wing wisdom, as advertised. In one illuminating dispatch, writer Kelsey Piper takes on one irritatingly durable shibboleth to which progressives so often genuflect: the notion that if you just “give people

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