To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States.
See my latest essay: "Capitulation Day: The dimensions of defeat, and the chance for recovery."
snyder.substack.com/p/capitulati...
I remain of the view that regulation of social media is better than a ban for young people.
But I also pretty much agree with all these proposals.
"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social.
"When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."
I wrote about SpaceX. SpaceX the rocket company, SpaceX the suspicious financial instrument for Musk to create value out of thin air. SpaceX the meme. SpaceX as the 7-headed hydra at the end of capitalism. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Scenes from a personalist regime: the leader can never fail, he can only be failed
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
ethnonationalism can’t roll like this bsky.app/profile/oemi...
i think there are a lot of people who would find it very hard to believe that the field of economics could produce this paper. and yet! Acemoglu is like the mainstreamest and most successful economist working today. some priors could use an update.
www.nber.org/papers/w35336
There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power
The company has mutated into something that defies both comparison and logic.
www.theatlantic.com
Earthling
Timothy Snyder
Duncan Weldon
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Charlie Warzel
Don Moynihan
Kevin M. Kruse
Omar Wasow
Sagebear
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Ben Shapiro: "This MOU appears to be a disaster that does not achieve any of the signal goals that were set by the administration at the beginning ... in my opinion the vice president, the chief negotiator, has not well served the president"
World Cup might be the closest thing we’ll get to world peace
