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Decadence and the rise of fraudulent Fantasy Capitalism
Elon Musk may be about to commit the greatest act of (legal) fraud in ... ever
 • Sam Badger
Culture wars and social reproduction
To understand why people get locked into culture wars, we need to understand their systemic origins
 • Sam Badger
"City councils in SF and NYC should ignore the NIMBYs and approve our proposed data centers in Golden Gate Park and Central Park"
Co-Authored by Entrepreneurs Kenneth O'Leery, CEO of Data In Ovations and host of reality tv show Shark Bank, and Mark Frandreessenssenssen, VC and…
 • Sam Badger
How Aristotle's respect for Carthage corrects mainstream discourses about "the West" vs "the rest"
Aristotle is either praised or dismissed for being the genesis of Western chauvinism, but his own writings on the Punic city-state shows that this is an…
 • Sam Badger
The inequality and provincialism of historical preservation
We preserve and celebrate the historical legacy of some, while paving over that of others. We need a cosmopolitan system which preserves the legacy of…
 • Sam Badger
Anti-imperialism and the overblown debate over campism
There’s an old debate in left-wing circles over the extent to which anti-imperialists ought to extend rhetorical support to governments like those of…
 • Sam Badger
The ruling class has always been decadent
The story that the capitalists of old were noble unlike the ones of today is a myth
 • Sam Badger
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