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"Civic Friendship": The Baseline Requirement for Democracy, & Incompatible with the Financial Flows Underpinning the Republican Ecology
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My Introduction to My Class on "New Deal & Neoliberal Orders"
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Kayfabe, Cruelty, Sanewashing, Hierarchy, Musk, Bannon, & Trump
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Is America Today Really No More Unequal Economic Class-Wise than It Was in 1960?
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WEEKLY BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2025-01-20 Mo
My weekly read-around...
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READING: Martin Luther King, Jr. (1958): Out of the Long Night
“The nonviolent resistor… knows that in his struggle for justice he has cosmic companionship. There is a creative power in the universe that works to…
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DRAFT NOTES on "Grab 'Em by the Pussy" for January 20, 2025
A little advice I think necessary to give to the confused right-wing young men of America in the age of Trump II. My bottom line? Listen to the wise…
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A Very Important Post About.... Laughing in the Face of Absurdity
I can't believe I need to write a column about Trump being a bad president. In 2023.
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Why I Think Alexander Hamilton's Big Constitutional Convention Speech Is Worth Reading Today
This, I think, is the raw Hamilton—the Hamilton of the "Federalist" is curbing his tongue & talking his book. Washington had thrown his weight behind…
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DRAFT: A Very Peculiar Kind of Triumph of the Will Indeed
A draft for Project Syndicate: Did Trump win because key tranches of the electorate had a will to be misinformed, or because of Trump & his enablers…
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Alexander Hamilton Did too Believe in "Industrial Policy"!!
An annoyance crossing my desk this morning. I mean, this is an easy thing to get right…
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DRAFT: Five Afterthoughts on "Slouching Towards Utopia": Friedrich von Hayek, Michael Polanyi, & Company...
Not yet ready for primetime, so here behind the paywall. Why does so much of what I see as the most interesting work in the 1900s in political economy …
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DRAFT: What Might We Learn About the Rise of Neoliberalism from the "Port Huron Statement" Considered as a Historical Document?
Something that might or might not feed into my American Economic History course, Econ 113, here at Berkeley in the spring semester.
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The Deceptive Poll Punditry of Statistical Noise; or, Why Nate Silver & Co.'s "Silver Bulletin" Is Still the Best Bet
Can one reason with these people? Pundits misinform with overhyped statistical noise, while the truthful message of the “Silver Bulletin” is that little…
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