Such an important piece from one of the wisest (and one of the few wise) foreign policy thinkers today: “It’s time to move to a less propagandistic phase of public debate, one that learns from the past to shape the future.”

https://twitter.com/stephenwertheim/status/1669675102609326088

Wertheim on the lasting reverberations of Bush-era maximalism

“does an intervention resulting in the death of a man” If these guys want to call lethal vigilantism “interventionism,” that’s fine, but then apply the same risk assessments they’ve (rightly) applied to military interventionism

Can’t help thinking one of the (many) reasons left-leaning pundits & pols are fine with Cop City is because few have any experience w/ military culture & training & are naive about what these things entail & how hostile they are to peaceful, civil libertarian norms. > The urban warfare training both parties are now endorsing amounts to David Grossman’s “killology” courses on steroids. Not long ago this was considered corrosive to a democratic public. Now bipartisan elites are throwing outrageous amounts of capital & killer toys into the mix. >

A quick thread on why Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and John Maynard Keynes—three giants of liberal thought—are once again looking very disappointed

https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/1640677927887962115

All three thinkers recognized capitalist wage labor is not only physically debilitating for many, but mentally and morally degrading for most. And the latter two (Mill and Keynes) anticipated a techno-utopian future with little to no wage employment at all. Some choice quotes…

Law firm behind this decision, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, owes its namesake to the president of the Pittsburgh Steelers (Art Roony II). It also owes it to Frank B. Ingersoll, distant relative of prosecutor in first major union-busting case: The Commonwealth v. George Pullis /1

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1636316402704433154

Frank B. Ingersoll was the great^7 grandson of Mayflower settler Richard Ingersoll, whose younger brother and fellow Mayflower Pilgrim, John Ingersoll, was the great grandfather of founding father Jared Ingersoll /2

I thought it might be helpful to compose a thread on the long history of left-wing Nobel laureates of economics. And when I say “left-wing”, I don’t mean middle-of-the-road liberal humanizers of capitalism… Outside of academia, few remember that for a good part of the history of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (that’s the prize's full name!) its honorees were chockfull with social democrats and socialists.

Despite political differences, I’ve learned so much from Harris. It’s frustrating how the Times keeps assigning anti-capitalist books to capitalist boosters. The reviewer simply parrots grade-school shibboleths about the left, w/o any seeming grounding in the relevant literature.

https://twitter.com/BigMeanInternet/status/1625511330487627782

I mean, of course the Times keeps assigning anti-capitalist books to capitalist boosters. Still frustrating!

As usual suspects ramp up calls for further “great power competition,” it’s worth honoring those who took the time to read and praise advance copies of PAIN IS WEAKNESS LEAVING THE BODY. Please bear with me here, seeing how timely these texts are… @rdunbaro has devoted her life to anti-imperialist struggle, all while writing some of the most important books of the era. I can’t recommend enough INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HISTORY & LOADED (a slim but powerful meditation on the settler roots and legacies of the Second Amendment).

Especially grotesque because Jefferson—when he wasn’t bearing the fruits of slavery—advanced proto-socialist arguments against accumulated (landed) capital and capitalist wage labor. Because of this, many Jeffersonians would become the country’s first self-avowed socialists.

https://twitter.com/bl_balthaser/status/1621596203250028544

When one of the country's first socialists sent Jefferson his pamphlet in 1822, the former president responded with encouraging if skeptical praise founders.archives.gov/documents/Jeff…

Thing about mainstream economics is if you just take its insights about market power, bargaining & knowledge asymmetries, and regulatory capture seriously—never mind most of org econ—it’s hard not to end up with some kind of program that most would recognize as “socialist” Kenneth Arrow, among so many other canonical economists, have more or less said this at one point or another, including some the original neoclassical economists (from Walras to Menger) dissentmagazine.org/wp-content/fil…

In response to Tirthankar Roy's conscription of B.R. Ambedkar into the cause of seeking the "whole truth" of British colonialism (left), I bring you none other than B.R. Ambedkar (right)... /1 Ambedkar is speaking at another 1930 venue, this time The All India Depressed Classes Congress, and he's more or less responding to all the old arguments Roy is now insistent on reviving. He goes on... /2

As far as I can tell, Hickel deserves criticism. But it's disconcerting seeing so many, in their disdain of Hickel, rally behind someone who can fairly be described as an apologist for the Raj. Some thoughts...

https://twitter.com/EricLevitz/status/1616234992157220871

For starters, Tirthankar Roy's latest thread should probably raise some eyebrows in itself?

I'm going to do a somewhat quick thread on Adam Smith (who capitalists like to fancy the "father of capitalism") that shows how funny this all is. Just keep in mind much of the history of economic thought in Europe and the United States sounds like this...

https://twitter.com/EricLevitz/status/1613233917464645632

Adam Smith on the oppressiveness of class hierarchy and divided labor (1)