This week, it became apparent to Trump voters they may lose their Obamacare, though I’m sure the doctors they’ll be able to afford without it will be fine.
Drop your trousers, cupcake.
Take two of these and call me in the morning.
I don’t like Mexicans.
I’m prescribing lots of bed rest.
- An Ahab’s in the Oval Office and the ship is in trouble, writes Eliot A. Cohen.
- Henry Ford was as bigoted as the Andrew “Dice” Jackson who’s now President.
- Trump’s manipulation of CEA numbers is intellectually dishonest.
- Tim Wu did an AMA that covered net neutrality in the time of the Trump.
- In 1952, Alistair Cooke worried about tyranny in a post-newsprint age.
- Lawrence Summers discusses globalization and social insurance.
- Walter Scheidel writes of the high price of combating wealth inequality.
- Luciano Floridi analyzes addressing inequality through taxing robots.
- A NYT editorial tackles robotics and the American Dream has some blind spots.
- Philosopher David Chalmers conducted an AMA on consciousness + technology.
- Nicholas Carr responds to Mark Zuckerberg’s “Building Global Community.”
- Laurie Penny says the climate-change apocalypse will be unevenly distributed.
- In addition to the huge moral failing, Muslim bans are terrible for the economy.
- Old Print Article: William Dudley Pelley, an American Hitler. (1938/42)
- A brief note from 1934 about Fascist mass weddings.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Donald Rumsfeld, Brexit, etc.