Comment: One could call the explosives used on Russo-German infrastructure “dirty bombs” in the sense of “dirty wars” i.e. operations outside the legal framework of nation-states. I think we have to agree the NordStream sabotage cannot have been conducted by a state actor by definition. States play by the rules…

Calls for a UBI (universal basic income) have subsided, now that the Yang Gang has been put to bed. “What are we paying people for?” is the typical question. “For just breathing” is not considered a serious response, even though physics confirms that breathing is work, and necessary work at…

Right around the time Alec’s new Bucky bio showed up from Powell’s (shipment to my home address vs the local branch was somehow mandatory if I used PayPal) I had gone back into studying Ouspensky + Gurdjieff in earnest, again through a Jungian lens, although this time not that of…

Do you remember when the book Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know came out, by E.D. Hirsch Jr.? If so, you go back a long way (to 1987), as I do. The book sparked a lot of controversy of course, regarding what was on the list or off…