Society

A contrast

Not even Jesus Christ

Sean T. Collins on Godzilla and America

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Buchanan’s fusion of Catholic subsidiarity and anti-globalism reveals the enduring fractures within the Religious Right that still shape today’s populist divides.

With a widespread housing crisis and sky-high downtown commercial vacancies, West Coast cities are weighing vacancy taxes to push more units into productive use, but Tacoma and Seattle likely need state legislation to clear the path.

“What’s Nashville have that we ain’t got in Seattle?” New Jim Crow, strict abortion ban, union-busting, low wages, unchecked poverty, and gun deaths in spades. Just what Starbucks was looking for, John Burbank opines.

Acclimation to mass death—and the devaluing of humanity in general—is their primary purpose

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Taste got democratized, wealth got hoarded, and nobody's spending makes sense anymore.

Falling for, and fretting over, the gilded and greedy new aesthetic.

An Argument into the Agora

We can laugh at them but we have to take this seriously

New research sheds light on how mediocre employees help would-be authoritarians maintain power.

Why an ephemeral model can't fund relationship-based work

The most important AI story of the year is not happening in Silicon Valley

An Argument into the Agora

One of the many reasons I’m a fan of reading history is its ability to offer frameworks for understanding the present. I recently finished Sven Beckert’s Capitalism: A Global History, a…