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Two more interesting articles on covid mass hysteria
Guess which crackpot started his article on covid in that notorious right-wing publication ‘The Guardian’ with the sentence “The virus has been used as a pretext in many countries to crush dissent, criminalise freedoms and silence reporting”? It’s that obvious … Continue reading
Saving democracy: one secret ballot at a time
Though I have a deep interest in and faith in sortition as “the other way of representing the people”, my own view of a good system and of the path of activism to get there is protean, eclectic and … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, History
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What to expect during a cold war with China?
In 2005 I did my first economic projections of the major powers (published in a textbook) and concluded from the trends then that China would have a larger economy in purchasing power terms than the US in 2017, which is … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, History, Philosophy, Politics - international, Society
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Interesting new articles on mass hysteria and medical morality
While the hysteria marches on here in Europe, an interesting economics article came out in a decent journal on the political economy of that mass hysteria. Their abstract: In this article, we aim to develop a political economy of mass … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus crisis, Death and taxes, Democracy, Health, History, Science
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Can you spot the countries with high vaccinations? Or recent lockdowns?
I am all for effective vaccines and have been impressed with how fast vaccines have been developed against covid, but I never expected them to be the wonder weapons some promised them to be. After all, the yearly new vaccines … Continue reading
History is repeating: Dennis Glover on the Capitol Hill riot
If something can happen once, it can happen again. This is the oft-ignored first lesson of history. The second lesson is that humans usually forget lesson number one. Watching the attempted coup unfold at the Capitol building, those two lessons … Continue reading
A brief summary of a long work – Piketty’s Capital and Ideology: by Ian McAuley
Ian McAuley circulated the summary below and I asked him for permission to make it available here – which he agreed to. Piketty’s books remind me of one of John Clarke’s lines. Back in Fred Dagg’s ten minute History of … Continue reading
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