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August 05, 2025 | The Sling
On the Optimal Ratio of Engineers to Lawyers: A Review of Dan Wang’s Breakneck
The book is fascinating and surprisingly fun—with Wang’s piercing dry wit interspersed at a near perfect frequency. It’s also frustrating. While the character of the engineering state is superbly developed, the points where its American “lawyerly” counterpart is brought into the mix are more tenuous.
July 09, 2025 | The American Prospect
More AI Means More Cancer
Many Americans will pay for AI with their health—especially thanks to Donald Trump’s war on renewable energy.
July 07, 2025 | Common Dreams
The Anti-Labor Undercurrent of 'Abundance'
The accusation from the neoliberal crowd with their new rebrand project is clear: unions are behind policies that result in scarcity.
June 05, 2025
Caring About Corporate Conflicts is Cool
The private sector rewards for public sector experience creates a conflict in which the public good and an employee’s own career prospects may be in tension. Not only does it incentivize public servants to consider the interests of the private sector (and how their decisions as a public servant might impact future employment prospects), but it erodes public confidence in civil servants.
April 28, 2025 | The Sling
Trump Shatters the Assumptions of Neoclassical Economics
To the extent that we ever lived in a neoclassical world, the Trump administration is ensuring that we don’t any longer. We are long overdue for more nuanced economic discourse that doesn’t shy away from its own limitations, and that recognizes when it can and should (perhaps must) be complemented with other types of insights. As the illusion of perfect competition becomes ever more ethereal, the need for more sophisticated economic thinking and debate becomes ever more urgent.
April 14, 2025
What we mean when we say neoliberal
March 05, 2025 | The Sling
Should The Government Subsidize Artificial Intelligence?
It turns out that you can develop cutting edge AI with orders of magnitude less money and energy than we’ve been told.
January 28, 2025
The Attack on FEMA Begins
Trump’s call to review FEMA’s efficiency is straight out of Project 2025, and doesn’t bode well for an agency he’s threatened to “terminate.”
December 18, 2024 | The American Prospect
Democrats Allow More IRS Funding to Fade Away
Concessions from the 2023 debt ceiling fight continue to haunt Democrats, and tax cheats could enjoy hundreds of billions in savings.
November 26, 2024 | The American Prospect
The Abundance Agenda: Neoliberalism’s Rebrand
The new centrist push to regain control of the Democratic Party, with corporate money
November 20, 2024
The Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget Welcomes Musk’s Meme Department of Government Efficiency
Welcome to the new Trump administration, where apparently this is what we can expect from the “responsible moderates” like CRFB.
November 19, 2024
The Campaign That Could Have Been
Taking on corporate greed, and assuring people you would keep them from getting ripped off, was exactly what the moment called for. Unfortunately, many of the millionaires and billionaires running the Harris campaign couldn’t see that.
November 15, 2024
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Picket Lines, Battle Lines, Applause Lines
As the Biden Administration Enters Its Twilight, Let’s Face Facts