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Autocrats, Bloodbaths, and Shareholder Value

The more aggressive the narrative control, the less credible the leadership Not sure if you noticed, but Chinese equities lost something close to $1 trillion in value over the last few weeks. Again, if you’re not aware, ONE TRILLION DOLLARS is a lot of dollars.

China

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Autocrats, Bloodbaths, and Shareholder Value
Autocrats, Bloodbaths, and Shareholder Value
China

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Pinned

Standing under the Arches

Creating responsibility in fact (and not in theory, law, or policy) requires tethering the objects of responsibility to substantial risk. The only risk category that transforms responsibility into innovative success is existential; anything substantially smaller amounts to nothing more than parking tickets, a minor nuisance for minimizing risk in any…

Yale

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Standing under the Arches
Standing under the Arches
Yale

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Apr 21

The Urgent Need for College Curriculum Reform

Academia in turmoil as New College explores new curricular designs Faulkner’s Sanctuary was published in 1931, two years after his failed The Sound and the Fury. Sanctuary was, at least, not an experimental novel, but it was about rape and abduction, so the reviews were grudgingly mixed. …

College

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College

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Apr 17

How We Got Here: Part 1

The New College Plan Many of the “experimental” colleges that were founded in the late 1950s to early 1970s began with a crisis. “It is acknowledged on all sides that American higher education is facing a crisis and that if we are to continue ‘the pursuit of excellence’ on which…

Hampshire

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Hampshire

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Feb 27

Vax Populi

Vaccines, Money and the Paradox of America The Puritans were a paradox: children of the enlightenment firmly driven by pre-enlightenment values. They approached problems with the cold rationality of scientists but solved them in an ethos that could be traced from the twelfth century back to ancient Greece. They had…

Vaccines

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Vaccines

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Feb 11

Memes Against State Power

Ricky Vaughn is in trouble (real name, “Douglass Mackey”). In 2016, Vaughn posted memes suggesting that Hillary Clinton enthusiasts could vote by texting “Hillary” or by using the hashtag #PresidentialElection. Now, he’s being prosecuted for violating a federal law that punishes conspiracies “to injure, oppress any person … in the…

Free Speech

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Memes Against State Power
Memes Against State Power
Free Speech

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Feb 5

American Education and the Managerial Revolution

Critical Race Theory and Curricula Aren’t the Problems I worked on education projects around the world, mostly for governments, and it’s true that — despite the best efforts of many over the last two generations — higher education in the U.S. is nonpareil and yet its foundations are exceptionally bizarre…

Revolution

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Revolution

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Feb 5

The Paranoid Style & The Managerial Revolution

Apparently, a defense of McCarthy, Birch, and Populism Perhaps the most influential political essay of the 20th century is Columbia professor Richard Hofstadter’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” first given as a BBC lecture in 1959 (as “The American Right Wing and the Paranoid Style”) and then published in…

History

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The Paranoid Style & The Managerial Revolution
The Paranoid Style & The Managerial Revolution
History

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Jun 13, 2022

2A: Freedom & Weapons Parity

In the early months of 1768, royal Massachusetts governor Bernard fired off a series of letters to the Ministry in London. The Stamp Act had been rejected by the people in November 1765, and the following month James Otis informed Bernard that a government that does not function has abdicated…

Second Amendment

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2A: Freedom & Weapons Parity
2A: Freedom & Weapons Parity
Second Amendment

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Nov 26, 2021

The Winter Threat

Property Rights & Revolution The date was December 20, 1765. The location was Castle William, a royal castle just outside of Boston that protected the harbor. James Otis and John Adams were meeting with Royal Governor Bernard. Legally, the Stamp Act had gone into effect the month before, but the…

Rittenhouse

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The Winter Threat
The Winter Threat
Rittenhouse

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