Guy who is not breaking the law:

To paraphrase Keynes, mainstream economists take great pride in being precisely wrong rather than roughly right

📣New issue of Journal of Law and Political Economy 📣 Volume 4, Number 3 🧵 escholarship.org/uc/lawandpolit…

after the defeat of the left in Greece a few years-an event decidedly less murderous than the genocide in Gaza-there was for a few years a particular kind of comrade whose psychic anguish was extremely impressive to them. It was very boring and a bit uncouth.

we live in the era of the hot Marxist and that's wonderful. I shall not be taking any further questions.

Here it is: all of Thawra in one place, on one feed, permanently: my 40-hour history of 20th century Arab politics with Abdel Razzaq Takriti عبدالرزاق التكريتي; the nationalist, communist, Baathist currents that mobilized against Western imperialism and Zionist settler colonialism. thedigradio.com/Thawra/

Thanks to fiction we can imagine what it must be like for a group of people to be confined to a ghetto and constantly threatened by a surveillance state.

Burn in hell

but remember folks, the far right disregard for the truth came out of nowhere and is discontinuous with everything else in society and politics.

James C. Scott as defender of a petty bourgeois utopia. Lorenzo McClellan has done the best historical work on the origins of his ideas, and here is a taste. dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

Final reminder for Ntina Tzouvala's Wheelwright Lecture tomorrow (Thursday) night at Sydney Uni! ppesydney.net/2024-wheelwrig…

“I have concepts of a plan” is, to me, the most relatable thing Trump has ever said.

One of the few Palestinians quoted in this piece not talking about Jews and how they feel

me, about every single woman that I find attractive.

Schwarze Null ftw

Freud, moments before being introduced to c*ke

Last year, Wanshu and I invited brilliant colleagues to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the brutal end of President Salvador Allende's democratic socialist experiment in Chile, from an int'l law perspective. It's a good day to revisit the pieces: cil.nus.edu.sg/blog/symposia/…

On the 51st anniversary of the coup in Chile, a good day to listen to Evgeny Morozov's excellent Santiago Boys podcast. The account of a progressive technological dream crushed by the coup against #Allende: the-santiago-boys.com