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On AGI Ruin (and all that).
It seems increasingly clear that the companies building LLMs are engaged in massive copyrights and intellectual property rights violations, trade-mark…
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Lenin's Principle and Nkrumah's Critique of Welfare State Capitalism
It’s not unfair to claim that Kwame Nkrumah’s (1965) Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism is highly indebted to Lenin’s Imperialism, the…
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On Gilbert Murray's Anti-Imperialist, 'Benevolent Racism'
As I noted yesterday (recall), I read recently Liberalism and the Empire: three essays (1900) by Francis W.
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On the late Victorian, pre-history of the Boomerang effect
A few days ago (here) I noted (echoing many others) that the war on terror has created a so-called ‘boomerang effect’ in the battle against immigration…
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Whither Democracy?
At the end of March, the editor at European Journal of Political Economy wrote me to inform me that the manuscript EJPE-D-24-00221R1, which is a paper I…
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On the early stages of Arendt's federalism, and racism
In 1945, Hannah Arendt published “Imperialism, Nationalism, Chauvinism” in The Review of Politics (here). Followed by her 1950 “The Imperialist…
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On Political Experience and Vengeance
Regular readers know that I am not the greatest admirer of Pierre Manent’s (2015) Beyond Radical Secularism (translated in 2016 by Ralph Hancock).
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On Adam Smith's critique of Mercantilism, Natural Liberty, and Open Access Orders
Now that awareness of the salience of mercantilism has been restored it is worth looking at one of the subsidiary arguments that helped undermine it.
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Nation > Class in Lenin on Imperialism.
One reason why J.A.
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Functional Integration in the early history of Social Liberalism.
I have been (recall here; here; and here) re-reading and teaching J.A.
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On Trump Tariffs, McKinley, and Closing Society
With collapsing stock markets, retirement portfolios, and consumer confidence, there is an all-too-human tendency to focus on the economic effects of…
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Lenin's Political Economy of Information in Monopoly Capitalism
In chapter 2 of Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916), Lenin offers an account of the role the transition of the banking sector plays in…
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