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Through a Glass Darkly
Over at Full Stop, fellow neurotic (and housemate), Mike Fisher, writes about our problems — both as historians and people.
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Thoughts on the Thatcher Fallout
In the weeks ahead, there’s going to be lot of nonsense put out about Thatcher, Reagan, and the “neoliberal” politics they embodied. Mainstream conservatives and liberals will both wax romantic about...
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After Neoliberalism
One of my homework assignments was to write an op-ed for The New York Times. For a variety of reasons, the following would never appear in the paper of record’s august pages, not even their Week in...
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If You’re One of Those People Who Always Says “There’s No Such Thing as a...
Since Facebook keeps asking me what’s on my mind… Here’s a lecture on the common libertarian/conservative refrain “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” It means you can’t get something for nothing,...
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Toward a People’s Roundtable
A friend recently queried about the possible “mechanism” or source of agency implied in my latest review essay on the post-Capitalist visions of Gar Alperovitz and David Schweickart. I proceeded to...
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A Correspondence Between Two Marines (Installment Two)
I expended the past 48 hours or so debating a Marine on Facebook. He’s a friend of a friend, so I can’t vouch for him, but he seems like a good and smart guy. He’s training to be firefighter at the...
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When Capitalism Kills off Competition: An American Anti-Fairy Tale
So I keep on hearing two claims from free market fundamentalist types: (a) The United States is the land of opportunity, small business, competition, and entrepreneurship and (b) To the extent the...
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Left v. Right
The fundamental difference between a left-wing political economy and a right-wing political economy is not the difference between big government and small government. There are plenty of left-wing...
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Socialism is (Almost) Everything
So I’ve now stumbled on a dozen journalists, across the spectrum, who are confident they know what “socialism” means. All of them insist it’s about state ownership of the means of production....
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Stoicism as Politics
One of the biggest mistakes—however innocent or willful—on the right has been the single-minded application of otherwise decent personal habits of mind like stoical determination or grit to public...
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