Can James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left?

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One of my obsessions over the past few years has been the role of attention in modern American politics, the way attention is a fundamental currency, and the way it works differently than it did at other times when it was controlled by newspaper editorial boards and nightly newsbookers. And so I've been particularly interested in politicians who seem native to this attentional era, who seem to have figured something out. We've talked a lot about how the Trump administration uses attention, how Zaron Mamdani uses attention. But somebody who's been breaking through over the past year in a very interesting way is a state representative from Texas named James Tallarico.

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