Naomi Klein’s husband doubles down on public grocery stores

The road to neoliberalism is paved with good intentions

For those of you who don’t follow Canadian politics all that closely, Naomi Klein’s husband, Avi Lewis, was recently elected leader of the federal New Democratic Party (Canada’s traditional left-wing party). Lewis sat down for a long interview with Paul Wells, in the process of which he managed to activate a few of my trap cards. Two things stood out. First, the interview gave me additional grounds to lament the cognitive capture of the Canadian left by American progressivism, which I really don’t understand, because American progressives are bunch of losers who can’t figure out how win an…

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