April 5, 2025

Tariff Stupidity

Is Trump just a stupid person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works, or are tariffs a clever negotiating ploy in a trade war with

March 28, 2025

Dead Batteries

It was late when I finally got to bed, but I had been exhausted for hours. I was so tired after dinner that I couldn’t even focus enough to watch

January 3, 2025

The cult of authenticity

I find it quite surprising that so many people believe one becomes a good writer by simply unlocking some pre-existing “authentic” voice. Presumably

November 9, 2024

How is Bidenomics different from neoliberalism?

Neoliberals are more worried about inflation than employment. When there is a recession, they want to raise interest rates to slow spending. This

October 13, 2024

Politicide

Statement for the Gaza Solidarity March on October 13. An article about the event in New Bloom by Brian Hioe. (中文翻譯) The ongoing genocide in Gaza

October 11, 2024

政治滅絕

10月13日加沙團結大遊行的聲明 (English version) 譯者:有靈

October 11, 2024

The Imperial Presidency

Concerns about constitutional overreach by the executive branch are as old as the American constitution. The title of this post, The Imperial

October 1, 2024

Is helping protesters a criminal conspiracy?

A lot of people are commenting on Zeynep Tufekci’s NY Times piece about the declining effectiveness of protests in the US. But I feel she skips too

September 30, 2024

Foreign Exchange Certificates, A Story

After a recent conference, our panel had dinner together, and a colleague was telling students about his research on cell phone usage among migrant

September 2, 2024

Vienna Trip, Summer 2024

So many classic works of art that we’d previously only seen in reproductions. I suspect that much of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing was composed while

July 5, 2024

Cold Storage

Let’s say you are a filmmaker and, connected to your computer, you have a hard drive holding all the media files and edits for every film you ever

July 1, 2024

How to Track Changes with Claude (or ChatGPT)

One of the more useful applications of today’s LLMs (“AI”) such as Claude or ChatGPT is to provide feedback on your writing. They can function