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Sundowning in America: A Series
J.D. Vance searches the internet for videos of human-dolphin attempted sexual congress...
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PROJECT SYNDICATE: Patriotic Grift
Now live: the abridged PROJECT SYNDICATE version: The Democrats' momentous decision to push Joe Biden out of the running followed difficult internal…
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WEEKLY BRIEFLY NOTED: FOR 2024-07-25 Fr
The "New York Times" salivating sooooo hard at the thought of a chaotic Democratic National Convention; Kamala Harris says she’s a prosecutor, not a…
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2.1. The Poor Stockinger: "What Rough Beast?" :: 1.0 DRAFT ms. 2930 words
DRAFT section 2.1 ms. of chapter 2 "General Ludd & His Adversaries" of "What Rough Beast?: The World's 21st-Century Political-Economy Polycrisis"...
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Why Won't the Republican Party Move to Replace Trump with Vance?
They should—nobody doubts that Vance would run a better campaign and be a much, much better president than Donald Trump. But they cannot get it together…
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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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Is America Today Really No More Unequal Economic Class-Wise than It Was in 1960?
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Grokking þe History of Antiquity: Ancient Stories of Élites Already More þan Half-Transformed into Myth
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SCRATCHPAD: 2024-07-25 Th: Horowitz and Andreesen Think Trump Views Them as Friends Rather than Prey...
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SCRATCHPAD: 2024-07-24 We: Bill Dudley Joins My Side on Fed Policy; & Biden-Thing Journamalism; & MOAR...
A scratchpad…
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Marking the Death of James C. Scott on July 19, 2024
James C. Scott of Yale was one of the greatest social scientists of the turn-of-the-millennium era...
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Joe Goes
Biden's political standing was untenable.
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Chocolate in the Context of the World Market: What Is the Global Left's View?
Wondering if I can and should try to open up some lines of communication with the "global left"...
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Notes on Friedrich Engels (1884) on "The Relative Autonomy of the State"
What was Friedrich Engels doing here, in 1884, in trying to shape the direction of the socialist movement that was the Second International?...
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Before 1870, the Malthusian Devil Comes Back the Very Next... Half Millennium, at Best
Was ancient Greece truly an escape from the Malthusian trap? No! Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson argue that classical Greece defied Malthusian…
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PROJECT SYNDICATE: How Humanity Lost Control: A REVIEW of Dan Davies: "The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions…
For Project Syndicate <http://project-syndicate.org>: the unaccountability machines we have built, or how our complex societal systems are making us…
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A Return of "Management Cybernetics" as a Way Forward Out of Economics-Based Neoliberalism?
I signed up to write an 800-word review of Dan Davies’s brand-new "The Unaccountability Machine". The problem is that what I now have is more than 5000…
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Is Harvard's Government Department Really Weaker Today Because of the Absence of Analogues to Ned Banfield, <strike>James Wilson</strike…
Steve Teles's pleas for help in fighting "academic sectarianism" seem convincing to me in abstract, but unconvincing to me when we get down to empirical…
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