Lambert here: Seems appropriate…. By Mark Robert Rank, Professor of Social Welfare, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Reposted from Alternet. A century ago, French writer and poet André Breton penned his “Manifesto of Surrealism,” which launched...
Patient readers, I came up a little short on Links today. Check back in a few for the full complement. –lambert The ride of our lives: why the horse is crucial to human history Guardian IMF chief warns of ‘unforgiving’...
As if Germany hadn’t been humiliated enough by the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines and the investigations and media reports that try to point the finger everywhere except the obvious culprit, Berlin just rolled the red carpet for the...
Conor here: The author of the following piece wastes a decent amount of space on TDS that weakens a message about solidarity among working class in the face of climate change. That’s unfortunate because the message about survival strategies and...
I keep on hearing people like House Speaker Mike Johnson saying how growth under Trump was the fastest. Well, just comparing against the last three and a half years, I wonder how this can be true. Using the latest available...
From EJ Antoni and Peter St. Onge channel Vladimir Putin (Feb 2024): America’s political establishment has less respect for the U.S. dollar than our foreign adversaries. That was made clear when Tucker Carlson recently interviewed the Russian strongman President Vladimir...
Ode to an EJ Antoni graph (apologies to Keats). Total interest payments have risen substantially, and this shows up in a scary picture: Figure 1: Federal interest payments, bn.$, SAAR (black). NBER defined peak-to-trough recession dates shaded gray. Source: BEA...
By Lambert Streher of Corrente. Readers enjoyed my previous semi-autobiographical post on “writing tools” (reference works like the OED) so I thought I would stumble my elided way further on down the road to creating what today we call content...
Lambert here: “Original accumulation” is such a neutral-sounding term. By Ramin Skibba, an astrophysicist turned science writer and freelance journalist who is based in the Bay Area. Originally published at Undark Humanity’s dependence and impact on nature have never been...
The Essay as Realm Georgia Review Through the Looking Glass, and What Zheludev et al. (2024) Found There Asterisk Why the World Bank and IMF matter more than ever FT Climate To prepare for the climate of tomorrow, foresters are...
