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The guest today is Jason Lee Byas. Byas is currently a Junior Faculty Fellow at the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets & Ethics, and starting this fall will be Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Political Economy at Tulane University, with a coappointment at the Murphy Institute. His research focuses on criminal punishment, reparations,…
How to Defend Billionaires Stupidly…
…A Guide For Right-Wing Polemicists and Other Sycophants In recent months the public outcry against concentrated wealth and inequality, and the growing influence of progressives and democratic socialists with anti-billionaire rhetoric on Democratic politics, has evoked a corresponding alarm from the center, center-right, and right. The counter-cry in defense of billionaires has come from organized…
Review: Kim Stanley Robinson, Ministry For the Future (2020)
Burmese Way to Crony Capitalism: The Socialist Roots of Burmese Cronyism
Personality Politics and My Personally Instructive Case of Noam Chomsky
On Larken Rose: The “Economics” the Left “Doesn’t U...
If you’re a leftist who frequents online spaces at all, you’ve almost certainly been mocked for not “understanding economics” or told to “go study economics” by some right-wing dudebro (probably with a black and gold header and #Bitcoin in his profile, if he’s on social media). When a podcast by Larken Rose (“Appreciating Capitalism”) for…
The Ethics of Limit
Yugoslavia: A Utopia Lost or False Nostalgia?
Alienation, Deprivation, and Play
A Half-Built Garden, by Ruthanna Emrys (Tor 2022)
A Half-Built Garden is a well thought out first contact story, with an engaging plot — things which would make it well worth reading on its own. But as anyone familiar with my previous reviews will be aware, when I review near-future sci-fi stories about liberatory postcapitalist utopias, that’s not my primary concern. I review…
Review: Kim Stanley Robinson, Ministry For the Future (2020)
Book Review: Red Moon
“What’s a ‘Libertarian Authoritarian’?”