Book I’m reading
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CKPG86MG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_351_o02?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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********* NYTmes.com: I Don’t Want to Live in a Monoculture, and Neither Do You
I Don’t Want to Live in a Monoculture, and Neither Do You
Few things can change your perspective for the better more than being attacked from both sides of America’s culture war.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/opinion/michigan-diversity-equity-inclusion.html?smid=em-share
************* NYTimes.com: America Is Sleepwalking Into an Economic Storm
America Is Sleepwalking Into an Economic Storm
The combination of an aging work force, artificial intelligence and shifts in globalization will challenge America in ways not seen in decades.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/opinion/economy-us-aging-work-force-ai.html?smid=em-share
**************** NYTimes.com: A Conservative Futurist and a Supply-Side Liberal Walk Into a Podcast …
A Conservative Futurist and a Supply-Side Liberal Walk Into a Podcast …
Could the U. S. economy be twice as large today if it hadn’t made policy mistakes in the 1970s?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-james-pethokoukis.html?smid=em-share
The point they totally missed is how the concentration of wealth and its monopoly power in the economy has stifled innovative. See THE BIG AI RISK NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE ARE SEEING
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/ai-dating-algorithms-relationships/678422/
********* Freedom for the Wolves
Neoliberal orthodoxy holds that economic freedom is the basis of every other kind. That orthodoxy, a Nobel economist says, is not only false; it is devouring itself.
As Isaiah Berlin would have it: Freedom for the wolves; death for the sheep.
***** NYTimes: The Line Between Good and Evil Cuts Through Evangelical America
The Line Between Good and Evil Cuts Through Evangelical America https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/21/opinion/christianity-fundamentalist-evangelical-pentacostal.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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[*** The Washington Post] One poll question summarizes eight years of Donald Trump
Asked who they trust for information about Ukraine, Republicans were most likely to point to the former president.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/15/poll-ukraine-news-trump-honesty/
*** NYTimes.com: How New Wars Have Brought Back Old American Divisions
How New Wars Have Brought Back Old American Divisions
Both parties experience echoes of decades past.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/opinion/republicans-democrats-ukraine-israel.html?smid=em-share
*** We’ve Been Thinking About America’s Trust Collapse All Wrong
Trust isn’t something that emerges naturally from a well-functioning society; people have to build it through hard work.
**** [The Washington Post] Secret Russian foreign policy document urges action to weaken the U.S.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been gathering data on the vulnerabilities of its Western adversaries, a classified Russian document shows.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/17/russia-foreign-policy-us-weaken/