Killing Khamenei: Regime-Change Roulette in a Powder-Keg World
Understanding the State of the Corrupt Supreme Court Today
MAMLMs Still Epic Fail Open‑Book, Closed‑World, Finite‑List, Obvious Ground Truth Tasks
Query to Self: Is It, This Semester Worth Incorporating in My Classes My Introductory Digression on: "The Liberal Arts, Education, & 'AI'"?
Reacting to Matt Yglesias's Confession that A.I. Progress Is Giving Him Writer’s Block
From Plato to NATO to MAGA: Marco Rubio’s Myths & the Real "Western Alliance"
CROSSPOST: JOSH MARSHALL: Thinking Clearly About the Global Authoritarian Movement
Assessing Brink Lindsey's "the Permanent Problem"
The Streaming Wars Were Just Plain Weird
A Brief Note on the Near-Absence of Pre-1500 "Economic Growth"
Do Those Dominating a Situation Truly Bluff & Then Back Down?: Misreadings from Melos to Davos, & Beyond
Why Are There "Academic Marxists" Who Do Not Follow in Marx's Footsteps at All?
CROSSPOST: Alan Wolff: Bamboozled: What made anyone think the Trump tariffs were legal?
On the Birth of Science as We Know It: Thinking Out Loud: Thursday Economic History
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"