Joseph Malherek
@jmalherek.bsky.social
Historian of capitalism and intellectual migrations. Author of FREE-MARKET SOCIALISTS: European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918–1968. https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789633864470/free-market-socialists
And yet the stations are so dimly lit because of the indirect lighting. Darkest stations in any city metro, by far.
November 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
And yet the stations are so dimly lit because of the indirect lighting. Darkest stations in any city metro, by far.
That’s why there was the individual mandate, which was meant to bring healthy people into the pool, which Republicans killed in 2017 and which Democrats declined to reinstate when they had the chance in the first two years of Biden’s term, which brings us to where we are with insanely high premiums.
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
That’s why there was the individual mandate, which was meant to bring healthy people into the pool, which Republicans killed in 2017 and which Democrats declined to reinstate when they had the chance in the first two years of Biden’s term, which brings us to where we are with insanely high premiums.
Also the individual mandate was zeroed out by Republicans in 2017 and never restored by Democrats, even when they had the chance in 21-22. Why has this been memory-holed? The plans on the exchanges have never been affordable as a result, because of the adverse-selection problem in insurance markets.
July 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Also the individual mandate was zeroed out by Republicans in 2017 and never restored by Democrats, even when they had the chance in 21-22. Why has this been memory-holed? The plans on the exchanges have never been affordable as a result, because of the adverse-selection problem in insurance markets.
Might be replaced by variants, like the one where it’s opening night of the play in which you’re the lead and you’ve neglected to learn your lines.
June 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Might be replaced by variants, like the one where it’s opening night of the play in which you’re the lead and you’ve neglected to learn your lines.
When will Jeopardy start recognizing its at-home champions???
May 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
When will Jeopardy start recognizing its at-home champions???
Has no one heard of the Mexican Sailboat?
May 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Has no one heard of the Mexican Sailboat?
The film misrepresents the Bauhaus and the emigre experience. The Bauhaus was about mass-production and social integration, but this film is about an uncompromising visionary. There were many successful Jewish emigres like Victor Gruen who formed successful partnerships with American entrepreneurs.
February 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The film misrepresents the Bauhaus and the emigre experience. The Bauhaus was about mass-production and social integration, but this film is about an uncompromising visionary. There were many successful Jewish emigres like Victor Gruen who formed successful partnerships with American entrepreneurs.
The writing gods only visit in the middle of the night...welcome them.
February 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The writing gods only visit in the middle of the night...welcome them.
If there can be AI books (or AI products of any medium), that means there can be *infinite* AI books, and if there is such a glut in supply, these books will be completely worthless, not to mention uninteresting. We limit supply by putting our human stamp on them...in the future we're all notaries.
December 12, 2024 at 5:25 PM
If there can be AI books (or AI products of any medium), that means there can be *infinite* AI books, and if there is such a glut in supply, these books will be completely worthless, not to mention uninteresting. We limit supply by putting our human stamp on them...in the future we're all notaries.
You would have been exactly the right age for 69 Love Songs, but better late than never, I guess!
November 26, 2024 at 3:38 AM
You would have been exactly the right age for 69 Love Songs, but better late than never, I guess!
The Constitution explicitly forbids it.
November 7, 2024 at 4:39 AM
The Constitution explicitly forbids it.
My mistake, the piece about an ideological monoculture where dissenting views are not tolerated, and where apostates are instantly pilloried and swiftly ostracized, is, judging from the warm response to this comment, obviously unthinkable and untrue.
February 29, 2024 at 11:30 AM
My mistake, the piece about an ideological monoculture where dissenting views are not tolerated, and where apostates are instantly pilloried and swiftly ostracized, is, judging from the warm response to this comment, obviously unthinkable and untrue.
Even we grant that the opening anecdote is embellished, it's only setting the stage for the story about the editing of the Cotton piece and the calamity that followed, which is the point of the piece. Interesting that everyone just seems focused on the sandwich story and not the rest of it.
February 27, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Even we grant that the opening anecdote is embellished, it's only setting the stage for the story about the editing of the Cotton piece and the calamity that followed, which is the point of the piece. Interesting that everyone just seems focused on the sandwich story and not the rest of it.
Rather than grappling with the implications of this episode for the profession of journalism and its commitment to a free exchange of ideas, everyone on this site seems to have just decided that it isn't true. The echoes in this chamber are deafening.
February 27, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Rather than grappling with the implications of this episode for the profession of journalism and its commitment to a free exchange of ideas, everyone on this site seems to have just decided that it isn't true. The echoes in this chamber are deafening.