Rogues keefe6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “If you’re a politician, and you’re trying to rise in the ranks from the local or state level in your party,” he notes, “your best bet is to join the national culture wars”-even at the expense of constituents’ real concerns. As Keefe says in his preface, 'They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial. Jacob Grumbach, a political-science professor and the author of “ Laboratories Against Democracy,” talks about how state politics has become nationalized. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. In the past few years, in Arizona, Wisconsin, and North Carolina, legislatures have worked to strip powers from state officials who happen to be Democrats in order to put those powers in Republican hands. As Keefe says in his preface: They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption. Earlier this week, Representative Zooey Zephyr, of Montana, was barred from the House chamber after making a speech against a trans health-care ban. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from the New Yorker. Their offense wasn’t corruption or criminal activity-instead, they had joined a protest at the statehouse in favor of gun control, shortly after the Nashville shooting at a Christian school. Little more than a month ago, the story of two lawmakers expelled from the Tennessee legislature captured headlines across the country. Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. Rogues is a collection of Keefe’s New Yorker articles about criminals and con artists and more. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen ![]()
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