Biden: Strategic Projections of Confidence
The effort to shore up Biden’s flagging Presidential candidacy is a case study of the role of confidence and commitment in campaigns.
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Spook Scholarship: A Prominent Former CIA Analyst and Project Ukraine Backer Moonlights as a Collegiate Textbook Coauthor
Students lucky enough to be assigned the books will learn that foreign countries resisting US imperialism aren’t the only danger to “democracy,” but the American people are as well.
Read more...Michael Hudson: We Need a New Political Vocabulary
Yves here. Thank the persistent and very long running campaign to move the values of the US to the right for the hollowing out of the meaning of traditional political labels that Michael Hudson describes below. It can’t be said often enough that the change in the where the center was perceived to sit was […]
Read more...The Anxious Generation: A View of Where We Are and What Should Come Next
Jonathan Haidt contends that changes in childrearing practices have produced adults who on average are more anxious and fragile
Read more...Puppies Behind Bars and the Question of the Role of Prisons
A beautifully written story about a program which has inmates train service dogs shows some of our conflicts about the purpose of prisons.
Read more...The EU ‘Doom Loop’: Bloc Set to Embrace More Austerity Despite Evidence It Will Cause Further Rightward Shift
The National Rally wins first round in France. Why do the self-described centrists keep making it so easy for the far right?
Read more...How Camping Bans − Like the One the Supreme Court Just Upheld − Can Fit into ‘Hostile Design’: Strategies to Push Out Homeless People
The US Supreme Court decides it is not cruel to make it illegal for homeless people to sleep.
Read more...After the European Elections: Fiscal Policy is the Elephant in the Room
Fiscal pressures are set to intensify battles among shifting European leadership groups as to how much to spend and on what.
Read more...Rob Urie: The ‘Israel Lobby’ Works for the US Military Industrial Complex
Why even cynical interpretations of the source of Israel power in US policy are generally not cynical enough.
Read more...A National Cartel Fixing Rental Housing Prices: The Scandal Continues to Grow
The company at the heart of the rapacious conspiracy finally makes a statement following FBI raid in Atlanta and increasingly incriminating and devastating details.
Read more...Grieving the Family Cat in a Painfully Violent World
Despite large-scale tragedies and wrong, why grieving the death of small friends is not self-indulgent.
Read more...Project 2025: The US Far-Right Plan to Undermine Democracy and Rights Globally
The Heritage Project 2025 plan is a program for the next president to roll back rights in US and abroad – including draft policies
Read more...Courage or Hope? Facing the Climate Future
Yet another round of (nicely) trying to shake some sense into climate change remedy optimists.
Read more...Sixteen Dad Jokes in Honor of Father’s Day (with Zeisgeistiana)
What will a future Zeitgeist historian think?
Read more...Ninth Circuit Supports Jacobson Public Health Doctrine, But Accepts “Non-Traditional” Covid Vaccines May In Fact Be Treatments (and Hence Should Not Have Been Mandated)
Key question for consequentialists: If “non-traditional” vaccines are in fact treatments as under the Ninth Circuit’s opinion, what happens to the liability of Pfizer et al. for vaccine injury?
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