This piece by Michelle Goldberg is the first I’ve seen to notice the Marxist renaissance among young intellectuals, and does a great job telling the story without an overly skeptical frame. I think the...
I recently wrote about how radical intellectuals are treated as ipso facto irresponsible or abhorrent in middlebrow American ideas magazines where little comprehension of their thought is even attempted. I was talking about the liberal-ish...
Umair Haque has an interesting post up at the Harvard Business Review asking whether Marx was in fact correct about capitalism – not about communism mind you, but about capitalism. Marx, after all, did...
IOZ writes: What do you do with the sentiment that the government or Barack Obama or John Boner or the Times editorial board or whatever is/are failing to “do enough” to “create jobs”? We...
James C. Scott is one of the great thinkers of our time. This month at Cato Unbound, we’re doing a retrospective on his book Seeing Like a State. It’s a monograph whose influence has...
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25It's only sane if you believe it's going to result in major reinvestment in low skill manufacturing…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25CNBC is apparently in chaos: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9ef443b5c6e85f291367708a9d52f32b6c… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I can't even with this sane washing: "Trump’s Tariffs Are Latest Sign of His Second-Term Appetite fo…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Yes, the official premise at this point is we will talk about Taiwan and China as if they were one e…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Old school 1970’s Argentinian president but yes.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Thank you. That's a wonderful summation.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25It's kind of weird how Argentina got an American President and we got an Argentinian President. on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Yea I don't can't decide whether I want the rest of the world to take it in stride in light of Trump…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25One China in theory, two in practice. For example, Taiwan has long had permission to buy almost lead…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25It's a new height of idiocy from a dude who already was setting new records for it. He even, fishing…
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