Trump’s interventions by contrast are contradictory and haphazard. His administration has turned industrial policy into a personal patronage system—using tariffs, subsidies, and regulatory power not to build national capacity, but to further his own ends.

The article contrasts two authoritarian approaches to economic power. China’s state-managed capitalism—rooted in decades of industrial policy like Made in China 2025—has fostered world-leading growth in advanced technologies, energy infrastructure, and manufacturing capacity.

"Conspiratorial, reactionary anti-leftism" is the defining characteristic of the US "far right imaginary" from the 1940s to present. The central premise is that anyone to the left of a right wing Republican was basically a Commie, and was working in leagues w/ the media, higher ed, Hollywood, etc

The modern world runs on energy, not fossil fuels, and now in the 21st century we finally have the means to leave the fossil-fueled, polluted past behind and enter a clean energy future.

Drawing from historians like EA Wrigley and Pomeranz, I show how capitalism’s relentless drive for profit--not any inherent necessity--incentivized the transition to fossil fuels. Coal (later, oil then gas) was simply the cheapest, most exploitable energy alternative at the time.

Jeffries passing the mic to his spox - “Imma let my lil homies ride on you bitch-made ass progressive bitches, feel it!”

The complexity of the modern world undermines the ability to uncover the causal effects of actions taken in the political and economic sphere

How the failure to address economic and social problems can easily give way to dictatorship under the desire for “law and order”

The impotency and unresponsiveness of political parties to adequately address the problems wrought by industrial and economic development

Hell yeah

When we talk about corporate disinvestment in local newspapers, what we mean is that rural communities have been stripped of their local journalism.

When local news dies, “It essentially nationalizes content for those areas, so that local cultures no longer exist to themselves anymore.”