Albert Kim

Against Money A powerful deconstruction of humanity’s most influential invention, from the acclaimed economists J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev.   Money is unavoidably fundamental to our daily lives. It lurks behind ...

Coming this spring. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.

The Gestapo killed someone and then ofc lied about it

"As Villegas-Gonzalez drives away from the agents—not toward them, as DHS claimed—the agent on the passenger side aims his weapon at the back of Villegas-Gonzalez’s car." @unraveledpress.com

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9/14/25 Cicero Berwyn RR alert

At Pershing and Cicero this morning—

ICE grabbed a couple in front of their kids and left them in the car. Videos are circulating. The children are safely being taken care of now.

More info: instagram.com/p/DOly-gaD_jC

One of the interesting arguments from the book is that in Japan, apologies triggered a domestic backlash from the right that overshadowed any attempts at reconciliation and ended up making things worse.

READ THEORY

US tariffs on India hit 50% as Donald Trump-Narendra Modi ties sour Additional levies over Russian oil purchases raise rates on New Delhi to among the highest in the world

'Alyssa Ayres, a former state department official now at George Washington University, called the deterioration in the US-India relationship “head-spinning”.' www.ft.com/content/bc3a...

In light of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's state visit to the US today, check out our latest thematic section in the Sept issue of Critical Asian Studies, "The Martial Law Crisis and Democratic Renewal in South Korea" (now online): www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/toc/rcra20/c...

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"Popularism" as a project can be understood narrowly as a very instrumental — some might say cynical — approach to contesting elections. But I think there's often a broader and more deeply misguided vision behind it, a conceit that expert social science, relying on institutions like public polling, can supplant or circumvent or supersede messy, corrupt politics. This is the homonculous theory of democracy. It disdains the partisan and polemic, in favor of scientific rationality. It imagines there's some "truer" procedure that we can measure our democracy against. It's a project fundamentally in denial of the human condition — that we fundamentally cannot know how collectively to act or even how we "want" collectively to act, yet we must nevertheless act, together, in time and in the world. We must grope in the darkness to invent institutions, and then only afterwards see whether they function well or poorly, and do our best to adjust. Representative democracy requires ideologues, sincere partisans, people genuinely committed to a way of going forward. That renders it possible for elections to constitute a representative body of such partisans to deliberate on affairs of state and make laws. When political parties reshape themselves on the basis of polling, it renders the whole process nonsensical, a kind of infinite regress. It deprives the public of meaningful choice in the name of giving it what it wants.

this is why Britain hates Kier Starmer

There is a very good paper on this

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Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

Folks, this is why I've been saying we're not going to welcome Trump to The War on Cars. Tariffs are going to hurt the auto industry but they could kill the bike industry.

That's what I've been saying - Trump thinks a trade deficit means someone is cheating you. He wants there to be a zero trade balance, because he has no idea what any of these things are. Nobody stops it because his advisors are a cabal of looters and wreckers. bsky.app/profile/benw...

ok so!!! something I found really interesting after talking to Korean protesters was... well, it was actually me realizing something about protest in the US: protest is trapped in an unwinnable spiral about "peaceful" versus "violent" protest, and even people
who know it's dumb can't break free

Zuckerberg is at the vanguard of a dramatic reversal in attitudes across Silicon Valley, whose traditionally liberal workforces have been shocked by a broad backlash against diversity policies and employee dissent.

This to me is one of the central stories about current US politics. The tech barons who decisively threw their support behind Trump wanted commercial benefits, of course; but even more, they wanted to discipline their own employees. That’s the real content of all the anti-DEI stuff.

The scene outside the Constitutional Court is truly disturbing. Yoon supporters are shouting that judges, police, and election officials are *all* Chinese agents. The unhinged conspiracy theories claiming CCP infiltration have reached levels that are both bizarre and frightening.

인권위에 '캡틴 아메리카'가…尹 지지자들, "이재명 개XX 해봐" | 한국일보 윤석열 대통령의 방어권 보장 권고 등을 담은 안건이 10일 국가인권위원회(인권위) 전원위원회에 상정된 가운데, 윤 대통령 지지자들이 이날 아침

Pro-Yoon supporters are taking embracing Americanism to the next level. One guy dressed up as Captain America and stormed into the Human Rights Commission building in Seoul to call for the protection of the impeached President.

www.hankookilbo.com/News/Read/A2...

Cracks appear in Korea’s far right as factions turn conspiracy theories on each other The far-right supporters of Korea’s jailed president have broken down into infighting, lobbing the same kind of attacks used against liberals and progressives to take down one another

Better that they fight among themselves, I suppose.

Thinking about historical parallels. People talk about coups and autogolpes, the fascist seizure of power in the 1930s, and there are resemblances. But there are other models we could think about.

Took some effort but I got Deepseek to produce a pretty good accessible explanation for why indifference curves and the general equilibrium models built atop them are so fundamentally bankrupt.

Second answer would be information technology (printing press, telegraph, social media) responsible for the development of science/technology and political involvement of the masses. But this would be a more "shallow explanation"

Demographics, population size and composition. It underlies the British Agricultural Revolution, modern Economic Growth (Demographic Transition, women entering the workforce), ethnic conflicts, which nations win wars, which politicians get elected.

birthright citizenship
a) greatly simplifies the citizenship bureaucracy
b) prevents the formation of a permanent underclass
c) better secures my own rights
d) instantiates America as a moral-political republic, not a nation-state based on blood

“12·3 쿠데타, 윤석열 ‘개인’ 망상이 아니라 거대한 극우 ‘세력’의 부상”[논설위원의 단도직입] 연세대 사회학과를 졸업하고 독일 베를린자유대에서 박사학위를 취득한 후 2005년부터 중앙대 사회학과 교수로 재직하고 있다. 민주주의·시민사회·사회운동·불평등 문제 등을 연구해왔으며, <그런 세대는 없다: 불평등 시대

Good interview with Chung-ang Univ. Sociologist Shin Jin-wook on rise of far right in Korea in the context of the attach on Western Seoul Court last week.