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06, 2017
Two Proposals to Foster Autonomy, Renew Democracy and Exit Post-Truth Politics
By: Marco Senatore In a world where money is the only universal means of exchange, how different would society be
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06, 2017
Lessons from Montana
By: Caleb Mills Learning the hard way is not fun, but the lessons are all the more valuable for it.
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05, 2017
Memory and History
Remembrance can never be settled once and for all. The needs of a society change over time, and remembrance evolves to accommodate these needs.
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05, 2017
New Jacobins
By: Jared Marcel Pollen TO MY FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: I put the following work under your
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02, 2017
Rethinking the Goals of Finance, Cont’d
Some Letters to the Editor The article Rethinking the Goals of Finance: Lessons from the Amherst Arbitrage proved controversial. Below
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01, 2017
Women Rule – How They Took Down a King
By: Elizabeth Larkin Bouché As inauguration day approaches and women ready themselves for the Women’s March on Washington, I am
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01, 2017
Life is More Binary than Fiction: A Writer Reflects on Political Polarization
We are living in the Fruit Loops vs. Cheerios Political System. Each Fruit Loop represents a position on an issue, and each Cheerio its “opposite.” If you are on Team Fruit Loop, you MUST accept and agree and support all Fruit Loops, likewise with Team Cheerio. This is a binary system. This is bullshit. We would never allow such simple sorting for fictional characters, so why is it being pushed in reality?
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12, 2016
Rethinking the Goals of Finance: Lessons from the Amherst Arbitrage
By: John Brodie Gay & Jeremy Kingston Cynamon I. BACKGROUND Financial devices, like all technologies, develop – sometimes intentionally, sometimes
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11, 2016
What is “Fascist”? Umberto Eco on Ur-Fascism
"There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People." -Umberto Eco
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10, 2016
The US Left: A Short Introduction
Is there a US Left? More specifically, is there a popular movement for socialism in the United States that has any chance of affecting national policy any time soon? Despite rising interest in socialism, there is an enormous gap between this and the emergence of a solid and coherent national political force with a capacity to grow. To understand this gap – and why it has been so persistent – we must look to the structural factors that make the US so difficult for the Left.