The Intellectual Architecture of Trumpism

How the Left and Right Are Trapped in the Same Mental Loop “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago American politics has become bipolar. Both poles organize themselves…

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Financialization: The Parasite and the Host

Wars. Waste. Wall Street. Welfare. “The economy doesn’t work for you — it works to extract from you.” —Michael Hudson Financialization is a word you have probably heard in economic news, but its true meaning is rarely explained. The popular media treats it as the natural growth of finance in…

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