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This episode is hosted by C4SS’s Elinor Ostrom Chair in the Study of Self Governance, Nathan Goodman. Nathan is joined by Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall for a deep dive into the authors’ new book, How to Run Wars, A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite, available from June 18th on Amazon, or through…
Juneteenth, and the Right-Wing Conception of “Freedom”
Billy Binion  (“Juneteenth is a Celebration of Freedom,” Reason, June 19) writes that, despite widespread right-wing aversion to Juneteenth as a holiday, the GOP “in some sense still fashions itself as the party of freedom.” Matt Yglesias is most famous these days for his almost daily garbage takes; but years ago, back when the Republican…
Yes, Politics is a Zero-Sum Game
On Captive Clienteles and Enshittification
When You Cross Pinochet With a Cyberpunk Dystopia…
Communizing Society With Consumer Cooperatives
Within anarchist circles, there is a split between those who advocate markets and those who advocate forms of decentralized planning such as participatory economics or federated communes. While the work of Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek has pointed out the numerous issues with centralized state planning, much of the same criticisms can apply to…
Meritocracy is Bullshit
The Reconstitution of Society
What’s In A Slogan? “KYLR” and Militant Anarcha-feminism
Book Review: Assets in Common
Assets in Common: Stories of Business and Community Leaders Remaking the Economy From the Ground Up. Chelsea Robinson, ed.  Charity May, Jay Standish, Chelsea Robinson, Zoe Schlag, Derek Razo, contributors. Foreword by Zoe Schlag and Derek Razo of Common Trust (Infrastructure for Shared Ownership, 2024). This book is published under the auspices of the Infrastructure…
Therapy for Radicals
An Orientalist History of Transmisogyny
Book Review: It’s OK To Be Angry About Capitalism
The Rentier Economy, Vulture Capital, and Enshittification
  The Rentier Economy, Vulture Capital, and Enshittification   There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of…
Karl Hess: A Life on the (Right) Left (and Right)
Intellectual Property: A Libertarian Critique — 2nd Edition (2009, 2023)
The Undeclared Condominium: The USSR As Partner in a Conservative World Order