‘Freedom Cities’ and Our Tech Overlords’ Visions for the Future
Examining the techno-monarchists’ plans for a United American Emirates.
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Elon Musk’s Government Legacy Was Enacting Project 2025. His Ties Go Back Years
Quelle surprise! Elon Musk was long a Project 2025-type-program enthusiast and became its lead promoter and implementer.
Read more...Ukraine Engages in Massive Escalation Against Russia on Eve of Talks; Smuggled in Drone Hit Airbases; Claims of 40 Bombers Destroyed
A massive covert Ukraine drone attack on Russian airbases, including nuclear deterrent forces, risks nuclear retaliation.
Read more...Musk Might Be Gone, But Watchdogs Warn Trump/DOGE Carnage Will Continue
“Musk’s departure ….does not actually change…. DOGE’s mission to destroy everything that protects the public from….rapacious oligarchs”
Read more...Alongside China’s, Which Social Credit Systems Are Developing?
China’s state-run social credit system has elicitied global criticism for years, but other versions are spreading in the rest of the world.
Read more...Trump’s Global Trade Plans Are in Disarray, Amid Legal Appeals to a US Court Ruling on ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs
Trump’s trade talks have hit a speed bump and perhaps even a wall. What could come next?
Read more...Harvard and America’s Recurring Crisis of Trust
How Harvard was a mechanism for the shift from personal salvation to credentialism to identity as the source of moral legitimacy
Read more...Will Russia Limit Itself to Oreshnik Strikes on Ukraine if the West Escalates Attacks on Russia?
How the West is really playing with fire with the possibility of missile strikes on pre-2014 Russia.
Read more...As US Role in Gaza Intensifies, Expect Violent Responses in the West
Terror attacks in Europe over past 20 years offer stark warnings as US aids Israel in exterminating Palestinians
Read more...Trade Court Invalidates Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs; Have We Reached Peak Trump?
The Federal trade court delivered Trump a big loss on his fentanyl and “Liberation Day” tariiffs. What might come next?
Read more...Little Lost Lambda: How Any Randomized Controlled Trial or Opinion Poll Could Be Misleading
How an analytical simplification, of omitting lambda, a measure of inconsistency, can serious distort randomized clinical trial results.
Read more...What Is a Constitution?
The current set of ruling principles in the US is under attack. What sort of a new Constitution might emerge?
Read more...Rob Urie: Why the US Must Officially End the Ukraine War for It to Stop
A hard look at the inertial forces that will keep the Ukraine conflict going unless the US shuts it down.
Read more...James Galbraith: Wage Stagnation and Populism – A Comment on David Brooks and Noah Smith
David Brooks and Noah Smith defend neoliberal globalization by trying to ‘splain decades of worker wage stagnation.
Read more...Trump’s Liquidation of U.S Global Leadership
Some geopolitical aspects of how Trump’s mazimixation of his personal power comes at the expense of the US
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