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1854 Commentary on the Meaning of the Fourth of July
& the Declaration of Independence itself...
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J. Bradford DeLong: Professor of Economics, Emeritus
But Now I Need to Figure Out How Not to Eat My Brain in "Retirement"
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The Centuries of Eric Hobsbawm II: THURSDAY HISTORIOGRAPHY
Hobsbawm’s Long Nineteenth Century—in which his unshakeable bedrock foundational commitment to Marxist teleology is both his superpower & his…
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It Is Bad for Your Mental Health to Learn About the American Right's Truly Believes: HORROR OF THE DAY
Kate Riga has (some of) the goods on the Republican Party's core supporters today...
Jul 1
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Is Kevin Warsh as Bad a Central Banker as He Seems? Perhaps...: TUESDAY MACRO
Standing on one’s Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination is no way to create a stable standard of value. Removing any semblance of a signal…
Jun 30
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I Am Glad Lisa Cook Rightly Gets to Keep Her Job as Federal Reserve Governor Today
But That Is Only Because John Roberts Is the LIAR OF THE DAY...
Jun 29
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Clawing My Way into Comprehension (of the Token Tsunami, That Is)
Should I try to build a silicon-and-electrons chief‑of‑staff? Notes from under the dining‑room side-table. First failures and second brains as I…
Jun 27
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The Casual Destruction of USAID Is, so Far, the Trump Administration Action That Has Had the Greatest Negative Effect on Human Well-Being…
What is the most important thing you should focus on today? I think it is this: the casual incompetence of doing immense damage for no rational reason…
Jun 27
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Shorter Republican Speaker Mike Johnson Fundraising Pitch: If We Lose Control of the House, It Puts All of You on the Path to Jail Time
Definitely a new frontier in saying the quiet part out loud! This is indeed how democracies die—when the guilt of the in-class motivates them to kill…
Jun 27
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Trump Started a War, Lost the War, & Is Paying Reparations to Iran: MOST IMPORTANT THING
Trump’s Hormuz ransom: a lost war has turned into a $300 million‑a‑day payout as Trump pivots from “maximum pressure” to “how much cash flow do you…
Jun 24
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The Health Gap Between Conservative & Liberal America Is Written in the Mortality Data: CHART OF THE DAY
Medicaid expansion is the easiest albeit very, very partial fix on offer. And it is something that the people whom red states elect to rule them could…
Jun 15
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Would You Have Bet on the East African Plains Ape 75000 Years Ago?: MOST IMPORTANT THING
Really big brains, imitation‑driven culture, and ultrasociality look to me as initially evolutionary gambles with very serious downsides, whose eventual…
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