What Is Politics & What Is the Political? | naked capitalism
Yves here. We published a piece, Populism and State Power, by Tony Lynch earlier this year. His latest offering reflects some deep thinking about what the fundamental essence of politics…
“Entropy and Information Control: the Key to Understanding How to Mount the Fightback Against Trump and Other Populists” | naked capitalism
Yves here. This piece is so science-illiterate and otherwise incoherent that I thought our physics and chemistry-knowledgeable readers would have particular fun picking it apart. Even a mere high school…
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/20/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, yesterday was the complex maneuvering preparatory to travel. Today is the lurching and jolting of actual travel, hopefully arriving at a full complement…
Long-Running Kentucky Retirement Systems Case Surmounts Yet Another Procedural Spanner, Moves Closer to Discovery After Seven Years | naked capitalism
Yes, seven years. That is how long beneficiaries of the Kentucky Retirement Systems, represented by Michelle Lerach with the assistance of her formidable and controversial husband, Bill Lerach, have been…
Links 11/20/2024 | naked capitalism
Lessons From Lucy Sapiens Aztec Death Whistle Was Designed to Haunt the Mind, Brain Scans Confirm ZME Science Private equity: vampire capital Michael Roberts’ Blog Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 arrives with…
A Post-Election Reflection on Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right | naked capitalism
Yves here. KLG discusses how sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild’s latest book on the deep shame of working class people who have lost productive and decent-paying jobs explains why many voters…
How the Wall Street Journal Blew the Story of the Democrats and Inflation | naked capitalism
Yves here. Some things can’t be said often enough. In this case, the topic is what caused the inflation that is still stinging many Americans. It’s become a favorite hobbyhorse…
Requiem for an Empire | naked capitalism
Yves here. I suspect readers will find this piece on America losing, or perhaps more accurately, sabotaging its empire to be frustrating. But as Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway once…
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/19/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Northern Mockingbird, Granville Schools Land Lab, Licking, Ohio, United States Patient readers, matters occurrent have proved unexpectedly time-consuming, so this…
Social Security Tackles Overpayment ‘Injustices,’ but Problems Remain | naked capitalism
Lambert here: Now stop Medicaid clawbacks. In fact, fix all clawbacks, and start by putting a statute of limitations on them. By David Hilzenrath and Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group.…