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it's really kind of a problem that aside from specialist press and sometimes local outlets, only the right-wing media picks up stories like this.
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
it's really kind of a problem that aside from specialist press and sometimes local outlets, only the right-wing media picks up stories like this.
An appropriate response to the administration would be that the courts have clearly established that ICE/CBP actions go well beyond "law enforcement activity" and their established pattern of indiscriminate violence absolutely constitutes a life-safety emergency wherever they show up
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
An appropriate response to the administration would be that the courts have clearly established that ICE/CBP actions go well beyond "law enforcement activity" and their established pattern of indiscriminate violence absolutely constitutes a life-safety emergency wherever they show up
never saw the episode where sadako guest starred
October 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
never saw the episode where sadako guest starred
It's particularly strange for them to minimize equity risk while staking the future of the entire institution on a spectacularly high-risk bet that it can make billions of dollars back with molecular engineering and quantum science, two fields UChicago had basically no existing strength in
October 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It's particularly strange for them to minimize equity risk while staking the future of the entire institution on a spectacularly high-risk bet that it can make billions of dollars back with molecular engineering and quantum science, two fields UChicago had basically no existing strength in
I'm also not convinced that changing its investment stance away from equities after 2008 is a strategy that would have had Merton Miller's approval
October 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I'm also not convinced that changing its investment stance away from equities after 2008 is a strategy that would have had Merton Miller's approval
I think it's probably not a good thing that the University of Chicago, facing existential financial calamity, jumped on the crypto bandwagon in 2021 and is apparently committed to hodling
October 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I think it's probably not a good thing that the University of Chicago, facing existential financial calamity, jumped on the crypto bandwagon in 2021 and is apparently committed to hodling
This feels like a very interesting bit of history that I've seen mentioned almost in passing, like here in Deutscher's Trotsky biography, relying entirely on primary sources without much analysis. You can kinda see how the idea of Lenin as German agent was a popular one
![The Bolshevik peace propaganda, as an American observer put it, 'was indeed urgent and active, but ... it was much the case of a man blowing with his breath in the same direction with a full grown natural tornado'.
. Yet in their desire to avert
Russia's 'defection', the allied envoys almost persuaded themselves that the tornado would die down if only the Bolsheviks stopped blowing. Almost from the beginning of the February Revolution the British and the French ambassadors urged Prince Lvov, Miliukov, and Kerensky to suppress Lenin's party. The heads of their military missions hopefully encouraged Kornilov to stage his coup against Kerensky and the Menshevik Soviets.3 Two days before the October insurrection, the British Ambassador in quite undiplomatic language pressed the Russian Ministers for Trotsky's immediate arrest. Now when the Bolsheviks were in power, their revolutionary appeals, their disregard of diplomatic form, and their threat to publish and declare null and void the secret treaties and to withdraw Russia from the war, brought the hostility of the allies to a head. Their envoys were so bewildered by the upheaval they had witnessed and at such a loss to account for it that they were inclined to accept any crime story purporting to offer an explanation. They were half-convinced that Lenin and Trotsky were in fact Germany's bought agents and that it was German officers who had so efficiently and smoothly directed the October insurrection. One consolation was left-that the Bolsheviks would soon be overthrown; and that it was the duty of the allied powers to speed up that moment.
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"In the present phase of the revolution Russia can make neither peace nor war"
Sir George Buchanan wrote in his diary: "Information has now reached me, though l am unable to vouch for its accuracy, to the effect that there are six of their officer [i.e. German officers] attached to Lenin's staff in the Smolny Institute"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccsxvd2wagk4lhrxleq7xwhq/bafkreicc7ghcivebqlzaen6glnam5xfpc3thpmcs7yimttaqkumjapd5pu@jpeg)
October 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This feels like a very interesting bit of history that I've seen mentioned almost in passing, like here in Deutscher's Trotsky biography, relying entirely on primary sources without much analysis. You can kinda see how the idea of Lenin as German agent was a popular one
like the fact that Israel has historically used exactly these torture techniques (and other, more graphic ones) is very well established
October 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
like the fact that Israel has historically used exactly these torture techniques (and other, more graphic ones) is very well established
It's hard to convey just how far away and isolated this neighborhood is from the rest of the city and metro, especially from Broadview or from the north side neighborhoods that the news has focused on. It's a good bet that just about everybody in these photos lives or works in the neighborhood.
October 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It's hard to convey just how far away and isolated this neighborhood is from the rest of the city and metro, especially from Broadview or from the north side neighborhoods that the news has focused on. It's a good bet that just about everybody in these photos lives or works in the neighborhood.
Just to be clear, this is part of the training that NU requires its students to comply with. The plain errors of fact, though, distract from the broader issue, which is that freedom of academic inquiry is incompatible with mandatory adherence to any particular empirical claims.
September 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Just to be clear, this is part of the training that NU requires its students to comply with. The plain errors of fact, though, distract from the broader issue, which is that freedom of academic inquiry is incompatible with mandatory adherence to any particular empirical claims.
feel like shit just want him back
September 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
feel like shit just want him back
seriously. People could stand to learn that everybody is actually allowed to look up stocks
September 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
seriously. People could stand to learn that everybody is actually allowed to look up stocks
I've given a few options but for me really it's this one
August 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I've given a few options but for me really it's this one
the woods wander back
July 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
the woods wander back
yeah it's Escape from Freedom. One of the better psychoanalytic treatments of fascism imo. There's actually a pretty good gloss of it in a freely available book by C. Jon Delogu pitched at an audience not familiar with psychoanalysis
May 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
yeah it's Escape from Freedom. One of the better psychoanalytic treatments of fascism imo. There's actually a pretty good gloss of it in a freely available book by C. Jon Delogu pitched at an audience not familiar with psychoanalysis
Yep, and indeed that's exactly what Kaplan expands on in the next paragraph! I didn't appreciate when I first encountered it how much these insights would be lacking out there in the world
April 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Yep, and indeed that's exactly what Kaplan expands on in the next paragraph! I didn't appreciate when I first encountered it how much these insights would be lacking out there in the world
in my utopian society we would all be inoculated against the Law of the Instrument by reading Abraham Kaplan's The Conduct of Inquiry as part of our universal liberal arts education
April 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
in my utopian society we would all be inoculated against the Law of the Instrument by reading Abraham Kaplan's The Conduct of Inquiry as part of our universal liberal arts education
yeah this document bears no resemblance to actual economics at all. But it sure does show that the people responsible for this travesty are exactly the arrogant idiots you'd think they are. They think they found a flaw that lets them throw out all of international economics!
April 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
yeah this document bears no resemblance to actual economics at all. But it sure does show that the people responsible for this travesty are exactly the arrogant idiots you'd think they are. They think they found a flaw that lets them throw out all of international economics!
I'd say the caning of Sumner is an example of what I'm talking about. It caused a massive outrage both in the Senate and in the population as a whole across the North, and had actual consequences for Brooks. And like, find me the member of Congress today who would have this response
March 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I'd say the caning of Sumner is an example of what I'm talking about. It caused a massive outrage both in the Senate and in the population as a whole across the North, and had actual consequences for Brooks. And like, find me the member of Congress today who would have this response
wow. The NYT journalist is scandalized that law scholars are discussing genocide in Palestine. I guess they think publicly entertaining the possibility of agreeing with the International Court of Justice should be grounds for dismissal at Yale Law.
March 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
wow. The NYT journalist is scandalized that law scholars are discussing genocide in Palestine. I guess they think publicly entertaining the possibility of agreeing with the International Court of Justice should be grounds for dismissal at Yale Law.
who are these tv guys who never took international economics. a currency union by definition means giving up *sovereign* monetary policy
March 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
who are these tv guys who never took international economics. a currency union by definition means giving up *sovereign* monetary policy
