Many basic goods of the 20th century are in the process of being reframed as luxuries. Those who hold onto them are framed as reacting to the loss of privileges - as being necessarily of the right Once so classified, they can be cast into the basket of deplorables and excluded

👀 From CWL to PL w/ Veith Selk Annelien De Dijn Benjamin Studebaker Patrick Deneen Adrian Pabst Samuel Moyn 🔭 Claudia Wiesner Thomas Biebricher Anton Jäger Point Alpha Research Institute (PARI) Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins & many more. Panels on Friday afternoon are open to the public; Registration required: [email protected]

A lovely review of my book, The Way is Shut, published by Naked Capitalism: nakedcapitalism.com/2024/06/the-ch…

The US healthcare system is 17% of GDP It should be 9-12%, like every other developed country. Maybe 14%, if you want us to spend a little extra on R&D Instead, every year we take a trillion dollars and use it to create fake jobs for bureaucrats No one does anything about this

Why did Gandhi call for a revival of the varna system, which – by his own admission – develops very easily into a system of hierarchical caste? In his eyes, learning how to make a living from one’s parents leaves the mind ‘free for spiritual pursuits’ aeon.co/essays/on-the-…

I have a new piece out on Gandhi for Aeon Magazine! For Indians to be truly free, Gandhi argued they must take up traditional crafts. Was it a quixotic hope or inspired solution? aeon.co/essays/on-the-…

For Indians to be truly free, Gandhi argued they must take up traditional crafts. Was it a quixotic hope or inspired solution? aeon.co/essays/on-the-…

Oh jeeze, have we reached a point at which people are actually defending code switching? We all knew it was lame when Hillary Clinton did it, but because it's Harris we're meant to pretend it's fine now? No, sorry, count me out

In Europe whenever a green party gets close to power it immediately sells out. It's kind of impressive how quickly and thoroughly they assimilate into the establishment. It's almost as if their support bases consist almost entirely of college-educated professionals. Oh wait

When people reject abstractions like "the market" or "capitalism" and suggest that instead critiques should target the rich as individuals, they are caught in nominalism Abstractions should not be dogmatized - but to deny them in an effort to avoid dogmatizing is a mistake

Aeon mag is putting out some good stuff. Mostly American writers for American audience, but interesting stuff for all I think. Citizens and spinning wheels by Benjamin Studebaker Benjamin Studebaker Sam Haselby . aeon.co/essays/on-the-…

She bragged about the Dick Cheney endorsement and he let her get away with it! He's so washed

Americans really need to take a cold shower and hear this pod & Benjamin Studebaker’s insights open.spotify.com/episode/36mjh4…

Geisa, Thüringen, innerdeutsche Grenze, Cold-War Liberalism and Postliberalism: Es wäre untertrieben, zu sagen, dass der Ort gut zum Thema des Workshops gepasst hat. Mit u.a. Samuel Moyn 🔭 Patrick Deneen Benjamin Studebaker Julian Nicolai Hofmann Anton Jäger Oliver Weber

The 5th Philosophy Portal conference will be hosted Oct 5/6. Complete conference schedule/free registration can be found here: philosophyportal.online/rosy-cross cc Daniel Tutt Benjamin Studebaker Alex Ebert O.G. Rose theory underground Tony of 1Dime 🇱🇧🇵🇸 James Wisdom Hyperpsychology

Coming with Edinburgh University Press in November! Democracy as a hydra in a tar pit Burdened by an excess of narratives, it is weighed down by the very means of its survival