#Monopoly

At first I was resisted the idea of digitizing education because I was thinking of how many children will be thrown under the bus. But this morning, I thought: wacha
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Why the Golden Dawn verdict is important, but not enough. 1/ They were an outlier in European fascism, trying to combine the legal, parliamentary party with squadrismo (and major organised
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I think this generalizes to: can't be fired, can't be downsized, can't be denied a promotion, etc.Granted, you're biting off many of the standard running-a-business risks, but in return for
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Infrastructure are the basic systems that undergird the structure of the economy. The term infrastructure first appeared in usage in the late 1880s. The word comes from French, with infra- meaning "below"
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COVID-19 crisis: In a pandemic, the philosophy of death is suddenly top of mindThe philosophy of saving the most lives possible in swamped hospital emergency rooms is suddenly a matter
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"lay wide streets, growing shady trees. Ensure space for lawns & gardens. Reserve large areas for football, hockey & parks. Earmark areas for Hindu temples, Mohammedan mosques & Christian churches."
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It definitely matters that the Communist Party rules China instead of some other group, but not as much--or for the right reasons--as China hawks assert.  /1 A Populist, militarist regime
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It sure feels like we're living through an unprecedented boom in newsletters, but while email-based newsletters are experiencing a major surge, newsletters themselves have a long and honorable history.https://www.wired.com/story/peak-ne
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“electrical engineer turned environmentalist” ranted against (mostly female) Indian historians, using h-index scores on Google Scholar as “evidence” since he should be considered a better historian as his score was
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This was a stunning development that hopefully signals the Biden Administration's rethinking of Trump's pro-monopoly patent policies. It also reinforces the need for DCPS to reopen public school aftercare so
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This is a fun one from Jacobin. (Hint: there are at least three socialists in this photo) Speaking seriously, the internal critique of socialism most often came from the left.
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Your religion is marred by a bloody history of genocide, oppression, slavery, racism, massacres, imprisonments - all targeted at people who dared question your beliefs or who simply chose not
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The copyright scholar James Boyle (@thepublicdomain) has a transformative way to think about political change. He tells a story about how the word "ecology" welded together a bunch of disparate
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I'm at @FamStudies today explaining why universal childcare programs are a poor policy *even though* childcare costs are indeed a huge problem for families.https://ifstudies.org/blog/why-a-child-allowance-is-preferable-to-subsidized-chi
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Thread On the Supply-Need Vaccination Gap: At the current rate of vaccination, this will happen only by November 2022. If India wishes to cover 60 to 100% of its eligible
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Greetings Inmates! The following IP story details how one man’s simple but brilliant idea has thrown him into various legal battles almost every year. It’s rather lengthy but good.Credit to
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