What’s it like for a blind person to run a marathon? Living the punk ethos he was raised on, Phil is set on finding out
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Living a moral life often comes with costs. Recent studies clarify whether joy and satisfaction are among them
- by Jessie Sun
Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record of my published papers and to surface them for folks who missed them, I will periodically (re) publish blog posts about some “older” published projects. This post draws material …
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This is Part 4 of the short series of briefing notes that arose out of discussions I recently had in London about how a progressive political party might want to break out of the shackles that the British Labour Party has bound itself in with its obsession with fiscal rules and an adherence to the…
Leaked material reviewed by The Grayzone reveals failed ‘journalist’ Paul Mason conspired with GCHQ to monitor and attack this journalist and other critics. What did the British intelligence agency do with the sensitive information he secretly provided? Leaked correspondence reviewed by The Grayzone reveals disgraced journalist Paul Mason covertly collaborated with a unit of the GCHQ intelligence service to monitor and inform on perceived adversaries, including this reporter. In addition to feeding intel on independent reporters to British intelligence, the […]
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Important questions often require a leap from the empirical evidence to the theoretical claim. Sociology stands out from other social sciences for its willingness to tackle hard questions even when they require such a leap; however, burying the estimand obscures those decisions and confuses the link between theory and evidence. At best, this creates an […]
Foucault writes as though he were oblivious to the existence of the whole body of Weberian social theory with its careful distinctions between such notions as authority, force, violence, domination, and legitimation. Phenomena that are capable of being distinguished through such concepts are simply lumped together under his catchall concept of power. As a consequence, […]
SNL UK has a big fan in Doctor Who Showrunner Russell T. Davies, who sang the "confident and strong and mad" show's praises on social media.
The number of people in the UK without work that want it
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News that the move to free up 140 million barrels of oil was aimed at preventing China gaining from the situation. “That’s about 10 days to two weeks of supply that the Iranians had been pushing out that would have all gone to China,” he said. “In essence, we will be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days as we continue this campaign.”
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“Right now, the United States is tightening its siege on Cuba,” said political streamer Hasan Piker, explaining his decision to join the convoy, adding: “Fuel shipments are blocked. Flights grounded, critical supplies cut off. Donald Trump has even threatened a ‘friendly takeover’ of the island. For Washington, the message is simple: submit – or suffer.”
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Many stores and markets are empty, not because the island does not produce food, but because there is no way to transport it from the countryside to the cities. The United Nations has warned of a possible “humanitarian collapse,” due to the economic war. Havana-based journalist Luis de Jesus Reyes labeled it an attempted genocide in the making.
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By Robert Cauneau First published on the MMT France website 5 October 2025 Introduction What if everything we thought we knew about government financing was wrong? Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) …
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Many politicians and economists subscribe to the NAIRU story and its policy implication that attempts to promote full employment are doomed to fail, since governments and central banks cannot push unemployment below the critical NAIRU threshold without causing harmful runaway inflation. Although this may sound convincing, it is totally wrong! One of the main problems […]
The Trump White House plagiarized its justification for attacking Iran from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, the main DC outfit promoting war with Tehran. The think tank was originally founded to “enhance Israel’s image,” and partners closely with the Israeli government. The Trump Administration appeared to plagiarize its official justification for its war on Iran, copying almost word-for-word a document originally produced by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), a pro-war think tank with close ties […]
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These paleontologists got crafty
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When’s the last time you thought about your thymus?
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They’re an evolutionary feat all of their own
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As Habermas sees it, then, the issue between him and Foucault concerns their respective stances vis-a-vis modernity. Habermas locates his own stance in the tradition of dialectical social criticism that runs from Marx to the Frankfurt school. This tradition analyzes modernization as a two-sided historical process and insists that although Enlightenment rationality dissolved premodern forms […]
An interview with a behavioral economist about cake, climate change, and cooperation
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“We won. The first hour, it was over.”
— Donald Trump, March 11
“The Pentagon has asked for $200 billion in funding for the war in Iran.”
— The New York Times, March 19
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I am proud to announce that we have won the war—the one we’re fighting right now, indefinitely. We have declared victory, which will help morale during the next few years of battle. In fact, we won this war so well that we need about 200 billion of your tax dollars to keep winning it.
Look, we don’t want to waste your money. That’s why we vowed to make this a quick war, and we’ve followed through on that promise. The first hour, it was over. The second hour too. First week, over again. Next week, we’ll be wrapping up. In a couple months, we’ll have finished this war more times than any war has ever been finished before.