A journalist for 24 years, this is probably the most important article I've ever published. We saw the famine in Gaza with our own eyes. Together with Yarden Michaeli. Yarden Michaeli ירדן מיכאלי يردين ميخائيلي haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Absolutely harrowing report from Gazas famine. A man-made catastrophe and an utter shame for the West and the world to allow this to happen.

Julius Kölzer

Knöpfe im Aufzug: "Wieso sollte ich die Arbeit der Aufzugführer tun?"

Levi Henze Barry Naughton has a good paper from ~2010 on the "China Model", and whether it can be a Model of for others (He concludes no). It is not specifically about Industrial Policy (IP only really started in China in ~2010), but about key strctl aspects of Cn's PE, that also bear on IP

His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

Next month, my new book "Clearing the Air" will be coming out in the UK. On Tuesday 16th September I'll be doing a book event in Edinburgh. If you're around, do come along for a chat, argument, friendly discussion about climate change and how we fix it...

Just regarding the first section (which I don’t think is that important to Tooze): Why would a big majority of society getting richer within a generation or two even pose a structural challenge in any politically meaningful sense? Seems like a foregone conclusion

1/10 Good news on AI could be bad news for Europe's debt. A boom in AI-driven productivity could end decades of slow growth. But for Europe, this silver lining may hide a fiscal storm cloud. Here’s why.

NEW: Progressives have a birth rate problem For all the talk of a general fall in births, the drop is overwhelmingly driven by people on the left having fewer kids. By ceding the topic of family and children to the right, progressives risk ushering in a more conservative world.

In Japan, by contrast, the retreat from clean nuclear energy after Fukushima saw emissions rise even as birth rates fell steeply. Population growth and decline simply doesn’t play a significant role in the developed world’s emissions today. It’s swamped by innovation.

Yes. And it’s literally the same anywhere else - distrust of progress is a major corrupting social force (amongst others of course) and environmental horseshoe politics is a real thing.

Man muss sich von der Vorstellung verabschieden, dass es noch eine Weltgemeinschaft gibt. Es gibt zwei autoritäre Blöcke (USA/China) und einen halbwegs liberalen (Europa). Die UN oder das Völkerrecht verlieren an faktischer (nicht jedoch normativer) Bedeutung.

„Das Smithsonian ist außer Kontrolle“, wütete Trump vor Kurzem auf Truth Social, dort werde diskutiert, „wie schrecklich unser Land ist“ (stimmt nicht), „wie schlimm die Sklaverei war“ (stimmt). sueddeutsche.de/kultur/smithso…

My late father, Amos Oz, wrote shortly after the six day war: „The shorter the occupation, the better for us. I fear for the seeds we sow in the hearts of the occupied. More than that, I fear for the seed that is being sown in the heart of the occupiers.“ on.ft.com/3HA1n7B

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