A little injustice in fluid dynamics
You lost something in the Navier-Stokes breakthrough
Are Americans getting worse?
The worst of us sure are showing up
What do we make of industrial capitalism?
The five phases of capitalism, part three
What's wrong with universities?
Education can't be a market good
An Epidemic of Scams
Personally I don't want to be "pig-butchered"
Six Futures for Big AI
You can't have capitalism without workers
The Founders' Fatal Flaw
It's not too late to trust democracy
Why I am not quite a materialist
Nothing is ever "just" anything
Death to Chromebooks
I Have No Local Processing Capability and I Must Scream
Markets are blame diffusion machines
But you can't diffuse blame forever
Essentialism and the social reproduction crisis
A crisis is a terrible thing to waste, but also to experience
I'm not quite mourning political writing
Video isn't always worse
My book is out today!
My book Control Science is out today with Verso— instead of preordering it, if you haven’t done that already, you can now just order it. May’s first post of...
How to talk to demons
And also other people
The five phases of capitalism, part two
Here's the rest of phase two
Against consumer populism
We're more than consumers
Our public sphere isn't doing so hot
This is March’s one premium post! German philosopher Jurgen Habermas recently died. He is best known for theorizing “the public sphere”-- the social world in...
One and a half of the five phases of capitalism
Are we in "late capitalism"?
Why military dollars aren't like other dollars
The Pentagon is asking Congress for $200 billion, in no small part because of the outrageous war with Iran. The Center for Strategic and International...
Reading, Thinking: the Iran War
This is February’s premium piece– this time, an aggregation of some things I have been reading and thoughts on it. March’s free articles will be coming soon!...