Six Analytical Threads in Search of Useful Empirical Traction: On Karl Marx's 1859 "Preface"
(Largely) HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: “West”, “North Atlantic”, or “Dover Circle”?
READING: John Maynard Keynes on Isaac Newton
CROSSPOST: BRET DEVEREAUX: Once You Imagine Aleksander the Great’s Victims as People…
No, Aleksander the Great Was Not "Great" in Any Sense with a Strong Connotation of "Admirable"
Lessons for Debt Control from Clinton's Success in the 1990s
HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: John Holbo on the Horrible Atrocity of Defending Good Causes Badly!
CROSSPOST: STEVE SCHMIDT: Bari Weiss killed CBS News in 76 days
The "1984" Theory of Bari Weiss
Let Us Attack "Continental Philosophy" & Philosophers!: Thursdays in Academia
Jane Austen Was Born on December 16, 1775
CROSSPOST: NOAH SMITH: The AI Bust Scenario That No One Is Talking About
After the Last David Graeber Post; or, Once Again Unto the Breach...
HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Why There Are No Enduring Relevant Attractive Conservatives
READING: Is Writing → Dialoguing :: Grunt-Programming → Vibe-Coding?
HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Cognition & "Active Reading"
Muppet Pearl Harbor
2025-12-07 Su: Food for Thought
December 7, -43: 2067 Years Ago Roman Politics Had a Very Sharp Edge Indeed
To J.D. Vance, His Family, & His Staff, Hannukah Is a Subset of Christmas
2025-12-06 Sa: Food for Thought...
The AI-Bubble's Most Likely Endgame Looks to Be Not Apocalypse, But an Awful Lot of Useful Compost
Time for a "Land Acknowledgement"!
A $140,000/Year Poverty Line? I: Stewarding & Utilizing Resources
How Has U.S. Manufacturing Been Going Over the Past Generation?
Question to Self: Space at Berkeley for a Marx Half-Day Microconference in the Spring?