Populism, Pluralism, and Collective Power
dignitybydesign
politics
Stop Calling It Late-Stage Capitalism
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The Recurring Playbook: Capital, Creed, and Coalition in the American Right
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The Things That Aren’t Really Markets
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The Common Good Sectors
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The Full Cost Shift
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The Individual Unit of Measure Trap
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Why the left keeps losing moral arguments it should be winning, and what the other side needs you to never notice.
Kitchen Tables and Civic Ledgers
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The Farmer and The Forty Thousand
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The Conversation
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Living Inside The Structure
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Recognizing that you're both the hero and NPC in the system.
The Structure Itself
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A note on Leanne: She is a composite character, assembled from research, interviews, and the kind of experience that belongs to millions of specific people rather than any one of them. If you recognize her, that's the point.
When Structure Kills
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The Watchtower Nobody Occupies
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The Story Painted To Fit The Frame
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A note on Leanne: She is a composite character, assembled from research, interviews, and the kind of experience that belongs to millions of specific people rather than any one of them. If you recognize her, that's the point.
Organizational Dignity As Terminal Value
dignitybydesign
The organization that harmed someone, provided intervention, and watched that person recover and return to contribution, points to this sequence as evidence of its own moral adequacy; individual survival and recovery becomes organizational proof.
We Don't Understand States
mh-benton
We use the language of nationalism to describe a system that was never designed to be national, and we treat states as administrative conveniences rather than the sovereign political societies the Founders understood them to be.
What Dignity Actually Is
dignitybydesign
The claim that persons have inherent worth has been arrived at independently by rational philosophy, by theological reflection, by phenomenological investigation, by developmental psychology, by trauma research, and by the internal logic of what violation requires.
Audiophile Malls Asia: Highsun/Haiyin Plaza - Guangzhou, China. (And thoughts about China and the global order.)
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Archimago
MUSINGS: On high-end audio component prices, inflation, April Fools and peak "greedflation"?
Archimago's Musings
Was Hobbes gay?
Marika Rose
Thomas Hobbes’ biographer Arnold Rogow writes that, “Hobbes … may never have loved a woman, but no one has ever hinted that he was homosexual” (Radical in the Service of Reaction, 66). Even if that was true at the time Rogow was writing (1986), I’m sure it can’t possibly be true any more; but I...
Audiophile Potpourri: December 2025 web traffic among audio sites, price of cables poll, and flashback 2014 while looking ahead.
Archimago's Musings
Northwestern and Cornell
James Grimmelmann
Here in higher education, the capitulations will continue until morale improves. After Columbia’s shameful deal with the Trump administration last summer, I pledged not to donate to the university or to perform any service for it unless and until it repents and atones. Since then, several other...
Complicity is Not Contagion
James Grimmelmann
Jason Koebler, ICE Is Using a University Building as a Deportation Office and the University Says It Can’t Do Anything About It, 404 Media (Oct. 28, 2025): A university in Milwaukee is stuck with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as its tenant after the agency refused to leave a...
Agamben Between Pauline Messianism and Institutional Christianity
Adam Kotsko
[This paper was presented at the European Academy of Religion conference in Vienna on July 11, 2025, in a session entitled “Agamben’s Theological-Political Horizons: Reimaging Judaism, Christianity, and Messianic Potentiality,” organized by Libera Pisano, Federico Dal Bo, and Carlo Salzani. The...
Gaza Photo exhibit at Ritsumeikan Peace Museum
Travis
The Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University, recently hosted an exhibition on Gaza. Sadly, ironically for a Peace Museum, I think the exhibit did little to counteract the antisemitic narratives that inform and underly the conflict, and that have fueled so much division, harassment,...
Things I did in 2020
SSilver2k2
So, like my last post stated, I did some things while stuck at home. My absolute favorite project was this: I followed this guide (https://github.com/geaz/simplyRetro-D8) and built this awesome 3D printable desktop arcade cabinet. It of course uses a Raspberry Pi running RetroPi and...