Uncategorized

(Why) Climate Change Isn’t About Your Burger — It’s About (Centuries of) 10% of the World Growing Rich by Leaving 90% of the World Poor Now that the Amazon’s burning, suddenly, a kind of environmental mania is (finally) gripping the rich world…

America Doesn’t Value Womens Lives Flourishing — And That’s Why Patriarchy’s Winning I woke up this morning to a Twitter feed reeling in horrorfrom Alabama’s legislature passing a severe, regressive, grotesque anti-abortion bill…

(Why) The Universal Mother is the Antidote to the Authoritarian Father Here’s a funny and strange thing. Have you noticed how conservatives are helplessly attracted to AOC — utterly beguiled by her, unable to resist her magnetic pull, tumbling into her orbit like flaming meteors — but are also, at the very same time, hopelessly … Read more

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

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