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Anti-populism one more time
The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” …...
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The discovery of deflation.
A cultural history of inflation in America In the course of researching higher education costs in America back to the middle of the 19th century, I discovered something that flew in the face of what I...
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Populism one more goddamn time
“Everyone is talking about Populism, and no one knows what it is” Ernest Gellner, Populism: It’s Meaning and National Characteristics, ed. Gellner and Ionescu, 1969 I have mostly retired from the...
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Populist Decadence
More or less by definition, decadent aristocrats and populists have more in common than they know. Both are excluded groups, doomed to watch helplessly while the military-financial powers relentessly...
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Twentieth Century American Culture.
Sigmund Freud’s shadow hung over the Twentieth Century like a dark storm cloud (F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ditzy heroines ca. 1930 were “hip to Freud”) , and it was Freud’s nephew Edward Bernays who...
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Fucking Hofstadter
While the post-WWII leaders American intelligentsia were reading Kierkegaard and Heidegger and glumly accustoming themselves to a post-radical, post-humanist, establishmentarian world of diminished...
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Goddamn Liberation of Desire
There is more to want than there is to get, and since democracy came along anybody can want anything they want to want, so nobody is happy. And on top of that, since Freud came along desire is an...
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Establishmentarianism and Conspiracism
Gary Webb’s story can be summed up in three headlines: GARY WEBB: CIA PROTECTING CONTRA DRUG RING WEBB’S CIA-CONTRA DRUG STORY FLAWED SUICIDE OF BLACKBALLED REPORTER WHO BROKE CIA-CONTRA DRUG RING...
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The Four Right Strivings for Today’s World
We need to develop a samyak-pradhāna (Four Right Strivings) for today’s world: Right Antagonism Right Negativity, Right Resentment, Right Closedmindedness. Liberals have been educating their children...
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