RFK Jr.’s War on Neurodiversity is a War on Individualism
The Trump Administration really seems to have a thing for genocide, and I don’t believe this statement to be hyperbolic even if it is a tad theatrical. Whether they’re launching nationwide dragnets to preserve the racial purity of the endangered American factory, militarizing the Rio Grande, or openly conspiring with Benjamin Netanyahu to hollow out…
Undemocratic Assumptions of Long(er)-Duration Sovereign Debt
A defining and underpinning characteristic of the international financial system in the 21st century is the apparent necessity of access to, usage of and infrastructure needed for sovereign debt (or comparable instruments), credit markets and capital markets more broadly. Typically, states across the globe rely on access to and usage of such markets to borrow…
Book Review: Filthy Lucre
Joseph Heath. Filthy Lucre: Economics For People Who Hate Capitalism (Toronto: HarperCollins, 2009). Heath states his goal at the outset: I’m not interested in selling anyone on the virtues of private enterprise. This is primarily because I share the unease that most people feel with the capitalist system. And I would like to see us…
Landback: Abolishing Ethnonationalism and the Ethnostate
…With Particular Regard to the Israel-Palestine Conflict Click here to view or download the .pdf version. Introduction The central thesis of this paper – one which will be restated throughout – is the problematic nature of the nation-state, in the sense of a state or polity built around an official ethnicity. The ideology of ethnonationalism,…