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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,…
Review: Kim Stanley Robinson, Ministry For the Future (2020)
This book would be a good companion read either with Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline, or with Robinson’s other books Red Moon and New York 2140. The story, written in 2020, begins in 2025. Climate change has progressed to the point that heat domes in the Global South reach deadly wet bulb…
Burmese Way to Crony Capitalism: The Socialist Roots of Burmese Cronyism
Personality Politics and My Personally Instructive Case of Noam Chomsky
Capitalism in Inches and Pounds: A Parable
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’?”