After four weeks of prime futbol every day – two, three, four games a day – you get to today, no games, and then depression sets in. This Cup has seen some great football. It’s now down to 8. Frenches still look best of breed. I had some questions about Argentina,
Politics, a word devoid of meaning these days. At best, here in these United States, thought of politics immediately turns to Republicans and Democrats, yet, neither the Declaration or Constitution says anything about parties. Parties are the invention of representative republicanism, one of many modern political innovations brought about with
"But while violence can destroy power, it can never become a substitute for it. From this results the by no means infrequent political combination of force and powerlessness, an array of impotent forces that spend themselves, often spectacularly and vehemently but in utter futility, leaving behind neither monuments nor
Where do you start these days? The FT has AI ‘exuberance’ risks ending in lengthy investment bust, BIS warns. BIS is the Bank for International Settlements. It’s been described as the Fed of global central banks. That's not quite right. What we learned in 2008, we all
“The American technocrats have drawn an enchanting picture of a society in which, with the abolition of the market, technicians would find themselves all-powerful, and would use their power in such a way as to give to all the maximum leisure and comfort possible. This idea reminds us, by
I’m in Chicago and the other day my 93 year old mother was in the other room watching the Trump show from Versailles. My mother now has the TV volume higher than my dad once did, that’s saying something. So, once more, despite best efforts, Trump was sticking
“This future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems to be possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it were, for something
“That way you’ll understand in future days, when there’s a profit to be gained from theft, you’ll learn that it’s not good to be in love with every kind of monetary gain. You’ll know more men are ruined than are saved when they earn profits
Life just bounces So don't you get worried at all It's that time. I've been a futbol fan for a long, long time. The high school my brother and I attended was one of few in Chicago with no football, but a soccer team.
It’s because I chatter that I do nothing. Or perhaps it is that I chatter because I do nothing. – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment So, ran across a piece regarding "virtual energy plants." This is something, I've advocated, well, longer than I or anyone would
"In my opinion, there is no anguish in the Greeks. That's what makes them dear to me. Never does just struggling against anguish produce serenity. The struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. They were on another level: they had grace." Simone Weil, Letter,
So for months, Ames has been sending me things about Graham Platner running for Senate in Maine. I would glance. However, the NYT had a recent interview. I looked closer because he had beat Chuck Schumer's candidate without a vote, not that that's difficult. In the