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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
The Ethics of Limit
by Tommaso Biagi Independent scholar of moral and political philosophy “I do not rule you, and you do not rule me.” ⸻ The Quiet Contradiction of Every Civilization Every civilization—flawless, perfect in composition and intention—exists atop a quiet contradiction: We love freedom. We suffer domination. We justify it as “necessary authority,” “the public order,” “the…
Yugoslavia: A Utopia Lost or False Nostalgia?
Alienation, Deprivation, and Play
Why Myanmar’s Military Dictatorships are Fascist Regimes
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…
Book Review: Red Moon
“What’s a ‘Libertarian Authoritarian’?”
Book Review: Filthy Lucre