Government censorship of public online discourse in the West’s ostensibly liberal democracies has been largely covert until now, as revealed by the Twitter Files. But thanks to the EU’s Digital…
Yves here. This post describes the long history of children serving as worker, and how modern economies moved away from it. Perhaps I am being unduly critical, but the long…
Yves here. Richard Wolff provides a wide ranging yet comparatively compact tour of the incoherence of America’s official posture on China, using that as an example of late imperial disfunction.…
The long-delayed project to build a train tunnel under the Hudson River to New York City received a big boost from the federal government this week, a $6.88 billion grant…
Yves here. One point in favor of Eliot Abrams is he makes Victoria Nuland look warm and fuzzy. Providing cookies to murderous thugs comes off as less bad than defending…
Yves here. Today Satyajit Das takes a deep dive into the true, as opposed to marginal, cost of renewable energy. Needless to say, it’s difficult to do and careful analyses…
Yves here. Update 6:15 AM EDT: Helmer’s skeptical take on the hogtying of Prigozhin seems confirmed by breaking news. Per NBC: Wagner mercenary chief is still in Russia despite deal…
Yves here. The matter of actual balkanization due to higher sea levels goes well beyond separation, even though that focus in this article helps make the point more vivid. At…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. I hope readers had a splendid holiday weekend. –lambert UPDATE This is a bit light, but I had household matters to take care of, and…
Yves here. KLG today focuses on new research on how hunter-gatherers have much more and more diverse intestinal flora, and what that says about their health and our diets. By…