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I Am Bored So Here Is A Story
I am not yet mentally ready to face squarely the fact that the Obama administration is going to do all the wrong things about our dire economy. Let me say again that Pres.-elect Obama is not the...
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What I Did Not Write About Enough in 2012
Climate change Nothing new there. Alarmists keep lying, making up data, cherry-picking data, exaggerating grossly the consequences of what does happen on the climate front. Not really worth dealing...
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Discussions of the impact of immigration on native labor often have a 19th century, quasi-Marxist flavor. Implicitly, they seem to posit a large undifferentiated working class, on top of which sits a...
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Peer pressure writ large
Part I We fight for and against not men and things as they are, but for and against the caricatures we make of them. ~ Joseph A. Schumpeter One hurdle to public discourse that is underrecognized and...
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In the Spirit of Socialist Realism: Sampling American Multikulti Cinema
On the new year day, searching on Youtube for something to watch, by chance, I stumbled upon a low budget and poorly made Western Yellow Rock (2012). By now, I watched enough of Hollywood products that...
View ArticleMiddle-class: questioning the definitions
Vestis virum (non) redit ~ Latin proverb As Brexit drags on, there is a reassessment occurring of Margret Thatcher...
View ArticleBourgeois II: place in the world
Quite recently, I was reading musicologist Martha Feldman’s book The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds, which is, unsurprisingly, a study on the castrato and the music written for the voice...
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The rise of millennial socialism Gavin Jacobson, New Statesman Class is still the defining force shaping our lives Kenan Malik, Guardian Are the Russians forging an ’empire’ in Africa? Maxim...
View ArticleElite Anxiety: Paul Collier’s “Future of Capitalism”
Paul Collier, the controversial Oxford professor famous for his development work and his acclaimed books Exodus and The Bottom Billion, is back. But the author of Exodus and The Bottom Billion is long...
View ArticleEarly 20th century socio-economic commentary: history in the making
Several years ago, I used to watch the television show Bones. The only quote I remember from that show was surprisingly pithy given its origins. Regarding a serial killer the team has finally tracked...
View ArticleChina’s upcoming troubles: class or nation?
Hopefully you caught Joel Kotkin’s thoughtful essay on China’s looming class struggle (it was in a nightcap from a few days back). Kotkin is a geographer at the University of Chapman. I think he’s...
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Too soon for a coronavirus commission Erik Dahl, Duck of MinervaWhat will become of Europe? Carson Holloway, Law & LibertyLiterature and inequality Branko Milanovic, globalinequalityTechnocrats...
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Can there be a global history of India’s caste system? Shuvatri Dasgupta, JHIBlogCaste, Silicon Valley, and anti-Caste NPR (pod…cast)How should law schools treat the powerful? Will Baude, Volokh...
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How American couples are struggling through the pandemic Rafael Nam, NPRThe thing party (GOP) vs. the idea party (Dems) Scott Sumner, EconLogKarl Marx was right (pretty much) Jacques Delacroix,...
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Libertarianism is bankrupt Thomas Wells, 3 Quarks DailyNeoracism in America today John McWhorter, PersuasionRacism, elites, and the have-nots Joanna Williams, spiked!Monday morning quarterbacking...
View ArticleThe Best Coffee Shop in the People’s Green Socialist Republic of Santa Cruz,...
At nine, two flows of humanity cross each other in front of Lulu Carpenter’s, the upscale coffee shop at the top of Pacific Avenue. Pacific Avenue is the main walking commercial thoroughfare,...
View ArticleMy Mother and my Sex Life
Don’t worry, this is not another tawdry tale of life among the hillbillies. I was raised in France in the fifties. We had a respectably long list of usual turpitudes including sexual practices that...
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The Paris Commune at 150 (The Tablet) “The greatest legend in proletariat history”, we were told in the modern European history class (back in 2001, probably still a solid claim). Liberalism and class...
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