The Cathedral of Good Intentions and Pope Mamdani (the next Mayor of New York)

Inside the Church of Compassion, Where Failure Is Faith and Arithmetic Is Sin

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There is a certain species of politician whose genius lies not in invention but in repetition — the ability to re-gift failure as moral courage.

Enter Zohran Mamdani, New York’s latest messiah in sneakers, who would save the city by trying again what has failed everywhere else, with the confidenc…