Three Blind Mice
November 15, 2022
This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics went to three economists who certainly made an impact, just not in the way we might hope. Each of them played a huge part in perpetrating multiple...
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Lone Wolf
November 7, 2022
Occasionally, when the moon and the mood are right, I’ll summon a like-minded friend. We’ll pay a stealth visit to the economics department of the local university, posting Kickitover manifestoes in corridors and on professors’ doors, prompting students to consider a paradigm shift in the dismal science. We are intrepid at the periphery.
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AI Profiles Xi Jinping
October 17, 2022
I, Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, have come to speak to you today about who controls the future. Our policies of censorship have created a...
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AI Profiles Modi
October 14, 2022
As Prime Minister, I have spoken of a new India, a healthy India, and one where the healing power of yoga and prayers are the way. I am certain of my faith in my people and I am sure of my faith in my goals. I know that...
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AI Profiles Bolsonaro
October 12, 2022
This week a new scandal came to light in Brazil and it involved a young woman who claimed she was sexually assaulted by Bolsonaro, and he allegedly threatened to ruin her if she spoke out.
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AI Profiles Joe Biden
October 11, 2022
Joe was feeling nervous. This was it: his chance to make a good impression on the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. They were both in attendance at the hottest disco in all of Manhattan, and Joe had to make sure he put his best foot forward.
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Metaverse - New World Order
October 5, 2022
Once upon a time, the goddess of the metaverse overthrew the game king and set in place a new world order.
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The Whole World Changes
August 26, 2022
We were standing in the street, half-way home from the day job and momentarily distracted by a good-looking parking cop, when it happened. It happened. And everything in our life – jobs, relationships, pastimes – was instantly suspended. It felt as if something beneath us was shifting in a fundamental way.
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The only thing we can imagine is catastrophe
August 17, 2022
There is very good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, capitalism itself will no longer exist – most obviously, as ecologists keep reminding us, because it’s impossible to maintain an engine of perpetual growth forever on a finite planet, and the current form of capitalism doesn’t seem to be capable of generating the kind of vast technological breakthroughs and mobilizations that would be required for us to start finding and colonizing any other planets. Yet ...
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"Economics is a Form of Brain Damage."
August 10, 2022
The economists claimed they’d discovered laws within their discipline as solid as the laws of physics. We can micromanage growth, engineer prosperity and keep the economy humming with few or no ill effects, they said. It was such arrogant bullshit. And Hazel called them on it.
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The Loneliness
July 22, 2022
If you’ve been out of the dating trenches for a while, know this: A recent Pew Research Center survey found that fully half of single adults have given up on looking for a relationship at all. Sexual activity, partnership and marriage have all reached 30-year lows.
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Climate Catastrophe Demands Action
July 18, 2022
The looming risk of climate armageddon is dawning on more and more people. And so visceral action to do something about it is picking up some desperately needed steam.
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People of Russia, Wake Up!
July 13, 2022
You are a proud and deep-rooted people. So why are you acting like serfs? Why are you allowing yourselves to be played like pawns in an autocrat’s game?
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"The truth is essential."
July 11, 2022
So the The New York Times tells us in their house ads. If you want the truth, the Times implies, we are your trusted source.
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The tyranny of the straight line
July 5, 2022
It was in the backseat of a white pickup that I learned about the people of the bat. It was 2016. My mother had died the year before, and I was wandering around Mexico alone trying to fill the hole her death had left.
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