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Hubris by proxy and the surprise attack on Iran
How the political vice of hubris emerges by proxy when super-powers give out blank checks.
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Arguments, arguments, and more arguments on Iran
beware the chest-beating and the rhetoric
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"But they were waving Mexican flags"
How trivialities about the optics of protests allow pearl-clutchers to distract from the core issues at play
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LA's protests remind Americans of what they already should have known - America's working class is not a monolith
Paramount, California's working class shows us how deficient America's discourse is on economic class and politics
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The forgotten importance of economies of scale
How a boring economic concept grounds the basis of China's success, and the challenges facing America
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May 2025

Social constructs are real
Contrary to popular belief (and the belief of some very smart philosophers), social constructs are "real" things
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No, "tech trees" aren't real
How an analogy to computer games deceives people about the nature of technological progress
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An exemplar of 21st century reactionary socialism
No, society didn't get a sex change, but some Marxists are transitioning in another sense.
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Aristotle would hate our modern economy
How Aristotle's rejection of "chrematistics", defense of leisure, and embrace of limited wealth redistribution conflict with modern capitalist society
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The odd oversight in BRICs discourse
Over the past decade or so, there’s been a lot of excitement about BRICS as an alternative to a global economy dominated by the United States, Western…
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How standpoint theory was vulgarized by social justice movements
To identify what went wrong with social movements in the first quarter of the 21st century, we need to go beyond simplistic concepts like "wokeness"
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April 2025

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