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Arthur Lewis as Smithian; and the Kuhn-loss as an arbitrage opportunity
Helen de Cruz (1978-2025), RIP
On the Citadel of Marxian Political Economy; Lange 1935 again
On Another Theory of Marxian Exploitation with Oscar Lange and Paul Samuelson
Running notes on Schuringa's A Social History of Analytic Philosophy, pt. 3 (Chapter 2)
Running notes on Schuringa's A Social History of Analytic Philosophy, pt. 2 (Chapter 1)
Running notes on Schuringa's A Social History of Analytic Philosophy, pt. 1
On Tyranny and Hamilton's Axiom in the Federalist Papers; Our Post-Constitutional Moment, Pt. 4
On Confronting Capitalism and the future of Liberal Praxis and Theory
On Chibber, Existential Insecurity, and Trump's firings.
On Aligning Values; on three discussions in philosophy.
On Eric Williams' Capitalism & Slavery and the history of liberalism
On the Dodo and a Mysterious Mauritian Schip-wreck
On the Political Roots of Academic Freedom
Tawney, Hobhouse, and Locke as father of liberalism.
On Elite Over-production and Student Anxiety
On Turchin; Elite Overproduction and Plutocracy.
On Zolo's Democracy and Complexity
Russell's Neo-Spinozism, Scientific Philosophy, and the Philosophers of the future
Amy's Folly: Ways to Kill a Groundhog
Eric Williams on Adam Smith's philosophical Prophecy and Federalism.
On Modern Slavery in Decolonial Marxism and late Victorian Liberalism
On Brutus' Sons in Machiavelli, Smith, Hume, and Spinoza
On Scaling Back the Enshittification of University Bureaucracy
On Enoch's "Shameless Liberalism: a Vision"
On Synthetic Philosophy and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations in Aristotle and Tainter.
Amy's Folly: I Think, Maybe, It Isn’t
On Machiavelli on Colonial Boomerangs and Bonapartism
On Adam Smith, Patronage, and the law of gratitude.
The Radical Alterity of the Singularity; Or on willing hyper-Transformative experience.
Lenin's Principle and Nkrumah's Critique of Welfare State Capitalism
On Gilbert Murray's Anti-Imperialist, 'Benevolent Racism'
On the late Victorian, pre-history of the Boomerang effect
On the early stages of Arendt's federalism, and racism
On Political Experience and Vengeance
On Adam Smith's critique of Mercantilism, Natural Liberty, and Open Access Orders
Nation > Class in Lenin on Imperialism.
Functional Integration in the early history of Social Liberalism.
On Trump Tariffs, McKinley, and Closing Society
Lenin's Political Economy of Information in Monopoly Capitalism
On a footnote in Darwall's Second-Person Standpoint.
On Hobson on the Ideologies of the New Imperialism
Bertrand Russell on the Public Engineering of Population Characteristics
On Knowingness with Jonathan Lear and Oedipus, the New Prince
Bertrand Russell, Hook-Up Culture, and the Existential Isolation under Free Conditions
Mumford's Manichean Liberalism
On the Predicament of the Richly Endowed University
On Reparations, Richard Cobden and the Nature of Nineteenth Century Liberalism.
On Financial Parasites in International Mercantile-Imperialism.
On Isaac Newton as Philosopher, and the split between Philosophy and Physics
Hobson's realist-liberal arguments against Imperialism.
Adam Smith on Witchcraft and Mercantilism
Caesar and Condorcet on Druid Esotericism, and the division of political labor.
On Ferguson's Defense of Liberal Empire
On Our Post-Constitutional Moment, Pt. 3
Newton and Nature does nothing in vain, pt. 4
Social alienation and the aesthetic; William James (and Russell) on Pacifism
On Bertrand Russell, Syndicalism and Political Diversity
Russell's Federative Imperialism
On Bertrand Russell and Vital Energy; or on War and Human Rights
On Francis Bacon on Setler Colonialism and Slavery.
On Gramsci and the failure(s) of Italian Liberalism
On Real Patterns, Inventory Control, and AI
On the economy of Care and Honor; On Justin Smith-Ruiu and maladapted male misfires
On the Empire State and Imperial Cities; Amsterdam and New Amsterdam
Machiavelli and Adam Smith on the worst polity
On the Academy and the Rise of MAGA
On Suicide in Seneca's Letter 58 (ep. 2)
On Spinoza and Machiavelli on a New Prince, and the Fall of De Witt
On Our Post-Constitutional Moment, Pt. 2
On Our Post-Constitutional Moment, Pt. 1
On TedEd's idea of a Bad Idea of Plato.
ON DOGE, The Articulate State, and Witnessing Truth
Adam Smith's Patronage Network. Some evidence from the first ten letters.
On Bergson, Oakeshott, and Foucault on the art of governing great peoples
Long Covid Diaries, No. 49: the end.
On US Corruption, Tariffs, and Political Renewal
Machiavelli and Spinoza on the origin of Perpetual Peace
Machiavelli on natural relativism.
On the End of Nato: a European perspective
Once More on Smith on Locke as a Mercantilist
On Hartz and the American Liberal Tradition and the Kitschy American elites
On Gaukroger, and Lucian in the History of Philosophy
On Thoughts on Machiavelli; and Strauss' polemic against Conservatism.
On Althusser's Machiavelli, and on Machiavelli as educator.
On Yale's approach to Institutional Voice; Phronesis and witnessing Truth
On Mill on Race, and the Welsh.
On whether Economists should read Marx, and Adam S.
On Faux Feminism and Social Hierarchy
On Cassirer, Heidegger, and all that (pt 1)
On Numa Dennis Fustel de Coulanges' Criticism of Montesquieu, and the function of Plutarch.
A post on Newton's and Spinoza's metaphysics, Pt 3. Nature does nothing in Vain...with some Hume