& was the “European Miracle” 800-1914, 1492-1914, 1689-1914, or 1776-1914?:
**NOTE TO SELF: All of the Currently Live Theories of the Causes of the "European Miracle”**
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2026-03-13 Fr
I, by contrast, recoil in horror at the Lovecraftian: "In fact, the gamma function corresponds to the Mellin transform of the exponential decay..."
...The Winning**
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2026-03-12 Th 4/END
...buy a media photo op, and appears to have bought a grinding war instead. One in which the U.S. is burning through $10 billion of military hardware a week and looks as likely to be the side attrited here as the side doing the attriting:
**CROSSPOST: DAN DREZNER: I'm Sick And Tired of All... 3/
...dominance over the Strait of Hormuz, Trump has talking points on Fox, the global economy has a bill to pay, the decapitation strike was botched—replaced an elderly shy-of-nukes Supreme Leader with a young, angry nuke-curious one whose entire family we have just killed—the Trumpists tried to... 2/
Dan’s subhead: “Gulf War Three is not going well for the United States”.
I believe Dan Drezner knows more than I do about what is currently going on with the Epstein-Netanyahu-Trump War on Iran, so I turn the microphone over to him.
Briefly: In the Persian/Arabian Gulf, Tehran has escalation... 1/
Well, you did read (some of) the first-draft blog posts...
Do **you** think what Brink is calling for is a gender-structured world of couples in which the man works hard as an individualistic producers linked to others by market exchange, while the woman takes charge of thick social relationships?
...a good society:
**”The Permanent Problem of the Human Race": Yglesias, Keynes, Lindsey; the Quest for Valued Identities & Societal Roles; & How to Move from "Abundance" to “Flourishing”**
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2026-03-09 Mo 2/END
We cannot successfully outsource the solutions to the problem of how to live wisely and agreeably well to markets, bureaucracies, & parasocial algorithm-driven media feeds. We need, rather, societies of abundance in the service of human-scale connection and purpose to have what is in any sense... 1/
Can you name me a people in the world who were **not** established by what one might call "settler colonialism"?
Less than one third of the topics I wanted to, and all at much less depth than they deserve. But ars longa, vita brevis:
**MEMO TO SELF: What It Looks Like I Will Actually Have Managed to Cover in My Half of Econ 210a This Semester…**
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2026-03-05 Th
But "unleashing Chiang" was an empty Cold War threat, made only by delusional right-wing morons. GHWB was making fun of people when he used the phrase...
There are **many** possibilities for Early Modern Europe fantasy books that start from genuine documents, but then read "dragon" for "dragoon"...
..Roulette in a Powder-Keg World**
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2026-03-01 3/END
...lesson: get an operational deterrent—nuclear-threat or leader-family threat, by bomb, missile, drone, or assassin—fast. This war is less a precision strike than a stress test of a wobbling world order, from Hormuz to Kyiv to the South China Sea and beyond:
**Killing Khamenei: Regime-Change... 2/
But Trump insisted he already destroyed the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear-weapons program! A sudden U.S.–Israeli decapitation campaign against Iran and the killing of Supreme Leader Khamenei shatters nuclear diplomacy, destabilizes energy markets, and teaches every medium power the same... 1/
nice summary of how it sits as I see it. what do you think? be well. brad
...center at all, but one with a neofascist two and four neofascist fellow travelers. That is what you see when you look at the Roberts Court as a political‑economic actor in a Trump‑run regime…
**Understanding the State of the Corrupt Supreme Court Today**... 3/
...they call “law”. The robes donned are “textualism” and “originalism”. The reality is emergency stays, shattered agencies, and a presidency unchained as hollow promises are made of rule of law and simply calling balls and strikes. The Roberts Court is not really a 3-3-3 court with a moderate... 2/
Legal Realism in CrazyTown facing the chaos-monkey president: Far out of my wheelhouse, but a legal-realist assessment of the Roberts Court as a Trump‑era partisan-ideological power machine, as Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts, and Barrett turn Trumpist chaos-monkey impulses into... 1/
Very true...
Do not ignore that actually having a sense of shame, having feelings of regret, and taking actions in response does not seem to be a common reaction among the set of Epstein's post-2008 friends...
..."Project Hail Mary" Movie Team REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY Want You to Go See Their Movie in a Movie Theater**
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2026-02-25 We 2/END
Twelve different video formats, $1.5 million a minute in world-class expert filmmaking craftsmanship, & I got to see where some of that $1.5 million a minute went by watching a small slice of the post-production fussing-over:
**My Cousin Phil Lord, His Co-Director Chris Miller, & the Entire... 1/
if you're really gonna go with "some people are getting dragged who don't deserve it," maybe don't run the piece with a cover image including:
-Archduchess who took $ from Epstein & lives large despite a ~dozen crime-level fuckups, and
-quack who ditched newborn in the ICU to hang out with Epstein
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Indeed, as long as the CCP needs to avoid currency appreciation that would lead to goverment-destabilizing unemployment in export oriented sectors, China needs treasures. @braddelong.bsky.social taught me that in 2006!
