Rossi’s Revenge
26th May 2026
I am contractually obligated as a discourse participator to acknowledge the launch of yet another discourse participating Substack. The Argument is an Abundance liberal absolutely definitely not Abundance liberal publication, led by Jerusalem Demsas (ex-The Atlantic) and staffed by a variety of people who absolutely do not have a certain ideological movement in common.1
The opening substantive post, from staff writer Kelsey Piper (whose departure from Vox means I no longer have someone to identify as the reasonable person at Vox), concerns the recent, consistent failure of guaranteed income pilots to produce any non-pecuniary benefits for their treated participants. This finding is, as Piper puts it, “shocking”.