We Need to Talk About Reactionary Centrists
Sympathizing with the right while punching left is not the neutral position pundits seem to think it is| Aaron Huertas
Here’s a story for you. I was taking care of my dying mother and needed to get some more chemical for the pool. So I drive to the local pool store. But the owner wasn’t in. Just his kid or a yound cousin. When I was accidentally given the wrong pool chemical by a dumb … Continue reading The best way to solve a problem is to laugh at it| Metallicman
Sympathizing with the right while punching left is not the neutral position pundits seem to think it is| Aaron Huertas
The Progressive Gaze, The Humanitarian Theory, and the Murder in Charlotte| American Reformer
Paul Johnson, the director of the IFS, has an article in the Times (also available on the IFS website without a paywall) about how different ideas about fairness are behind some of our political di…| The Policy Sketchbook
Wokeness wasn’t—isn’t—necessarily anti-Jewish. But it laid some of the groundwork for today's antisemitism.| The Canadian Jewish News
My thoughts on Berkshire Hathaway's 2024 annual report and Warren Buffett's letter to shareholders.| The Rational Walk
THE ELECTION IS COMING. 🗳️ With only 46 days left until polls close, the airwaves are choked with soundbites. Glossy flyers spill from every mailbox. Canvassers roam the streets with clipboards. Information of varying accuracy flies in all directions. It can be hard to know what’s-what, especially when our opposition is so effective at co-opting […] The post LD Roundup: Sept. 20 appeared first on La Defensa.| La Defensa
It’s a central tenet of the free-market economy: a corporation’s job is to maximize investment returns to its shareholders. Bluntly, to make money. And “shareholder proposals” have been a powerful tool enabling investors to pressure a company’s board to take a particular action to increase its value. In recent years, however, activist groups have been weaponizing shareholder proposals to pressure companies into pursuing ideological goals, especially environmental and “progressive...| C2C Journal
We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite will be published October 8, 2024 by Princeton University Press.| Musa al-Gharbi
President Xi Jinping wants to be leader for life, but brave Chinese citizens continue to speak out against the increasingly authoritarian rule. We must stand with them. DEENA GUZDER October 6, 2022 President Xi Jinping is on the verge of securing an unprecedented third term as the leader of the world’s most populous country, the People’s Republic of China. On October 16th, the Communist Party congress will declare Jinping as China’s ruler for an additional five years. Such congresses t...| art of life in chinese central asia
Contemporary social conflicts and dysfunctions turn on how people relate to the knowledge economy and associated institutions/ professionals| Musa al-Gharbi
You can launch web apps as standalone apps on Mac now.| adactio.com
Post-2011, there was a 'Great Awokening' among knowledge economy professionals. Contemporary data suggest it may now be ending.| Musa al-Gharbi
Enhance your website, progressively.| adactio.com
