It's time to take planning seriously.
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Most people take it as given that printing more money causes inflation, and they can be forgiven for thinking so, as it has been hammered home to them by mainstream economics professors in every econ 101 course the world over for many decades.
We need a new kind of thinking. It would involve a break from the absolutism with which we dress up our systems of thought. It would demand that we bring different communities of thinkers together – especially those who have been left on the margins – and get them talking to each other so that we can inch closer to a shared language and a usable history.
To Ukrainians — you are heroes and I admire you endlessly. I really hope you repel my disgraced country’s invasion. Please forgive us if you can.
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Tompkins Square Park looked like something had happened to it. There was scattered trash and detritus.
Poland's far-right government passes new restrictions on the German minority—the latest moment of a long, traumatic history.
Far from being a capitulation to liberal sentimentalism, a politics rooted in love may in fact be a revolutionary weapon as powerful as any bomb or barricade.
It’s probably a cliche to note that cyberpunk marked the point when science fiction finally looked up from its imperialist spaceship fantasies and realized the tech that would actually change the world was the computers running the spaceships.
