Ian Malcolm

J.D. Vance calls himself a ‘post-liberal’: here’s what that means for US government J.D. Vance is religious, has conservative views on social issues, but also believes in big government’s power to change society.

Matt Sleat on post-liberalism: J.D. Vance calls himself a ‘post-liberal’: here’s what that means for US government theconversation.com/j-d-vance-ca...

Now available in the US. To help understand what norms Trump is breaking, Kori Schake's history of American civil-military relations.

What Does Donald Trump’s “War from Within” Mean in Practice? The President’s chilling vision of turning American military power inward.

Kori Schake (The State and the Soldier) on The New Yorker's Political Scene. On Trump's domestic use of the military. podcast.https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/what-does-donald-trumps-war-from-within-mean-in-practice

Mentioned by Tim Harford in the FT today, Alan Manning's forthcoming Why Immigration Policy Is Hard.

Out later this month from Paul Kelly at the LSE.

Never before has humanity done so much talking. But is anyone listening?

Cambridge visitors and locals, don't miss Gérald Garutti, author of 'Watch Your Words'

Wednesday, October 8 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1

At Heffers Bookshop @heffers.bsky.social

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I recall a sense of disorientation on visiting the Resolution Foundation. Dedicated to the British poor but oozing money and decorated principally with paintings of the Soviet military. It felt very far from Blackpool.

He's wrong about Ireland. But it's odd that a person in a country powerless to stop the war thinks it’s helpful and important to donate to an organisation committing sabotage in a foreign country only marginally less powerless. There's something knee-jerk about it.

Self-Censorship, With Glenn Loury On this episode of American Prestige.

Glenn Loury on The Nation podcast, talking about self-censorship:

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Thanks again. We're just making different points.

Yes, true. I'm not sure, though, it affects the point that Rooney doesn't have to support groups that commit sabotage. The group that organises mass marches doesn't.

Or Rooney could switch her support to one of the activist groups that doesn't commit sabotage.

How We Sold Our Future: The Failure to Fight Climate Change John Foster reviews an important and disturbing new book by German sociologist Jens Beckert.

Jens Beckert's How We Sold Our Future: www.greenhousethinktank.org/how-we-sold-...

"... style alone isn't decisive. The giveaway, rather, was the reader's aside that the author ought to release beavers in the university's pond."

The Case for Pragmatic Progress | Los Angeles Review of Books Michela Massimi reflects on Philip Kitcher’s vision for the future in “The Rich and the Poor.”

Philip Kitcher's *Rich and Poor* in LARB: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

I recall a non-fiction book a few years ago that a woman wrote about her domestic worker--hired, presumably, so she had time to write about her domestic worker.

I think we should accept & respect that lots of people don't like wind turbines, stress instead they're necessary, & keep them as far as is reasonable away from sites of natural beauty.

Publishing today:

“Glenn Loury is a brilliant and courageous public intellectual... In our grim and dim moment of ugly polarization, even he admits that self-censorship can operate in our hearts, minds, and souls... Courage, compassion, & self-respect require us to be and do better!”

Cornel West

Whether or not wind turbines are a blot and and flatter parts of England are boring are subjective judgments. Better to argue turbines are necessary.

What's wrong with printing them in America? It serves them right if they now have to pay an 80% tariff.

Just a reminder to buy this book. Some of you haven't done so yet.

We should do more. We're a minor power and what we do may be entirely ignored, but the government should try.

Too many articles on the subject from non-FT papers that style themselves as patriotic don't question whether the rich ought to leave the UK when taxes rise.

The Aziz Foundation: "Empowering communities through education, promoting unity, and standing against hate. Dedicated to diversity, inclusion, and fostering a peaceful society." By avoiding taxes and moving to Abu Dhabi?

Brilliant article. The scandal may reflect a wider problem with enforcement in the UK. The state is too small for the number of laws on the books, and every day the paperboy brings more.

The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

It would be nice if the BBC cancelled its international partnership with CBS.

Exactly!

Philip Kitcher on the decline of a public ethics of caring for the poor.