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  • Dame Anne Salmond: How to split a society

    In forming the new Government, the National Party forged alliances with smaller, more extreme parties intent on amplifying their power, entering dangerous territory.  With its immoderate attacks on the media, te reo, women and the environment, New Zealand First plays upon ethnic, gender and rural-urban polarities to increase its influence far beyond its 6 percent…

  • Mute inglorious Miltons

    If effective altruists actually cared, they’d follow this advice. Billions of people alive today (the majority of whom are women) are in the same situation today, with their potential unrealised through lack of access to education and resources to express themselves. Rather than adding to their numbers, or diverting yet more resources away from them,…

  • The Proud Boys are collapsing: Surprise! Legal consequences do hurt authoritarian movements

    There’s a few things going on. As Owens notes, it’s common for extremist groups to fall apart fairly quickly.  They are composed of nasty people who seek conflict, so it’s inevitable that they fight and splinter over time. There’s evidence some Proud Boys are decamping to neo-Nazi groups. I’d argue that the Proud Boys are…

  • Israel Commits Suicide of Biblical Proportions, and America Is There to Assist

    Repeat after me: Bibi is evil… he’s the one who hold the gun to Israels head. Blinded by fear and outrage, Israeli citizens bestowed immense powers in the wrong hands. Meanwhile, Netanyahu saw clearly what he always sees best: his own self-interest. He set unachievable goals for this war, and his government continuously seeks to…

  • Paula Vennells: Ex-Post Office boss handing back CBE over IT scandal

    Class + IT == Toxic. The UK are about to unleash Palantir on their public health system… I predict that in 4 years we’ll see an event that makes the Post Office affair look just and kind. Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells is handing back her CBE with immediate effect after facing mounting pressure…

  • On Tyranny

    These are twenty lessons from the twentieth century I published seven years ago, first as a kind of online declaration, and then, with historical examples, in a pamphlet called On Tyranny. They were written in advance of the first Trump presidency, and have been used since in the U.S. and around the world. For those who…

  • Norman Finkelstein CONDEMNS Ousting of Harvard President

  • Revolutionary TikToker SOUNDS OFF on Antisemitism, Misinformation, Biden 2024

  • Pax Americana’s last gasp

    Pax Americana rests on two pillars: US military might and diplomatic power. By failing to rein in the scale of Israel’s actions in Gaza or in deterring Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, those pillars seem shaky. Bolstering them requires swift and decisive action from Joe Biden. The cost of continued relative inaction is simply…

  • The Anti-China Chip Jeremiad Is The Stupidest Policy Imaginable

    The leadership of ASML had resisted these sanctions because they said it wouldn’t work: what would happen is that China would learn how to make the machines themselves. What he didn’t say, but it is true, is that ASML would not just lose the Chinese market, they would eventually lose the world market anywhere that…