#Localism

Most of the discussion on Atmanirbhar Bharat has tended to focus on trade & industrial policy. This is not suprizing. However, there is an component that is less understood or

Matthew Pirkowski

While the ideas of "localism" get a lot right, they also demonstrate an ideological blind-spot in their unwillingness to deal honestly with well-known advantages to centralized structures, such as:- Superlinear

Why no #library is an island, a thread.The phrase "local libraries for local people" keeps coming up in my discussions about a better future for public libraries. It describes a

Michael Mulvihill

While virtually everything else in sports is down, MLB viewership on Regional Sports Networks was up +5% for the abbreviated 2020 regular season. That’s for the 25 teams whose RSNs

Maybe the way out is a commitment to more localism / federalism?An acknowledgment that there is a bimodal distribution of culture and mores that will never ever get along Want

What if the people best qualified to determine their risk calculations are individuals and communities, not national experts? What if experts ought to provide us information such that we can

Peter MacDonald

I think there's a missed point here in debate about Andy Wightman's credentials as a pro-indy candidate. The fact that he's more nuanced on this (independence as a means to

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blackpinkpilled

I have so many thoughts on this as a “cringe theme park consumer” and it has nothing to do with the quality of the media Disney produces but everything to

The United States is third largest country in land area and the third largest in population. It is demographically and geographically diverse. It has the highest GDP, slightly less than

Ricardo Valesquez

I’m going to let you in on a secret: 99% of the Twitterati who opine about global supply chains have never managed one.I manage global supply chains for a living

@cosmos is not a single thing or single network. It's a philosophy of blockchain design that has materialized in major advances, including some of the most useful software artifacts available

Professor Martin Green, Chief Executive of Care England, tells the Health Select Committee that despite what others have said "there were cases of people....who were symptomatic discharged into care homes."

The scratches the surface of why I no longer identify myself as a “Conservative.” Perhaps I would have labeled myself as such in another age, but that field is now

CW: Media Ecology, thread.There’s a school of thought, which says our social and political structures are strongly influenced by the structural tendencies of our communication technologies. (I happen to subscribe

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It is true that the American Empire will end as all things do, but not how people think. The empire will end in a massive cultural shockwave radiating out from

God Save the Kane

Twitter Ideologies Thread:Twitter Capitalism: only Blue Checks are allowed to get likes but don't worry Blue Checks only cost $10 000 Twitter Fascism: only Blue Checks get to tweet and