How the English Speaking World is Destroying its Future I want to tell you a story, about hubris, greed, folly, and nemesis. In the 1990s, American intellectuals thought that history had come to an end. It’s last, grand, climactic stage was what they came to call the Washington Consensus. This was the founding creed of … Read more
Is Social Media Replacing (Real) Self-Governance? It happens every day. I check my Twitter feed, and it’s an endless, throbbing, pulsing ocean of outrage. “Wow, what a pathetic excuse for a President!” “This is tyranny!” “IMPEACH NOW!!111” I’m sure you know the score. Here’s what occurs to me more and more:“What if even half of … Read more
Why Don’t Americans Understand How Poor Their Lives Are? Whenever I go back and forth between Europe and the States, a curious set of facts strikes me. In London, Paris, Berlin, I hop on the train, head to the cafe — it’s the afternoon, and nobody’s gotten to work until 9am, and even then, maybe … Read more
What a Powerless Society Is and What the World Can Learn Over the last few years, Americans have begun to discuss and debate power ever more passionately and furiously. Not so long ago, those who did would have been mocked and taunted for caring, yet now debates over and critiques of who holds power, why, … Read more
The Rise of the Anti-Revolution All around this troubled globe, we’re seeing the rise of a phenomenon as strange as an ice-storm in a desert: the regressive revolution. We’re used, you and I in the West, and especially in the US, where our creation myth glorifies one triumphantly, to seeing revolutions as the wheel of … Read more
Why Our Intellectuals Fail to Explain or Predict Now Only a minority of people feel their lives are better today than they might have been fifty years ago.In response, the intellectuals I follow tweeted something like: “these foolish people! Don’t they know how good they have it! They should be happy!! What’swrongwith them?!” Their words … Read more
How Economies Commit Suicide, Starring America and Britain as Romeo and Juliet I want to tell you a story of economics, love, and death. Kind of a Romeo and Juliet parable for the modern age, where the protagonist are societies, not people, who made a kind of suicide pact.
The Mad Men Created Consumers. We’ve Created Algorithmic Addicts What have we really built today, with all this technology? At the root, if we go down to the essence of what it is? Every minute, every thirty seconds. Update, political scandal. Update, celebrity gossip. Update, outrage. Update, Black Friday sale starting early. Trigger. Surge. Release. … Read more
The Dominos and the Fall America, the UK, and now Germany.Trump, Brexit, the AfD. An extremist wave sweeping the globe like an epidemic of the plague. I’d like to be able to tell you: it’ll pass, and everything will be fine. Instead, I think that you should (really) understand it. So let’s discuss it. Is … Read more
A Tiny Case Study in Economics vs Eudaimonia They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but social media companies might yet prove that old dictum untrue. They’ve made headlines daily lately, in a fairly appalling way. Facebookselling anti-semitic ads, swaying an election with “fake news”, Twitter being a platform for extremists. And so … Read more
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