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Posted on December 26, 2008 | by Ed

I'll have more to say in the near future about the economic outlook for 2009, but let's go ahead and assume that it's a bad sign when state governments have to start asking Uncle Sam for emergency loans to pay unemployment benefits.

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On Mark Smith's recent book EXIT STALIN, the shocking paucity of trade books that actually deal directly with the how and why of the collapse of the USSR, and the utility of Smith's "Soviet Civilization" concept to "The American Dream" and an understand of our own current dilemmas. ...

EXIT STALIN, ET AL. | Gin and Tacos

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Given the obsessive centrality of the Cold War and the Soviet Menace to American politics and culture for decades, "Fall of the Soviet Union

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1 day ago

Move Weird Al to a secure location. ...

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3 days ago

This piece successfully verbalizes something I've been trying and failing to put into words lately: the powerful sense that headlines about The Leader announcing that a big special import of food is on its way are not the stuff of a thriving nation where things are going well and likely to get better. ...

Trump’s Third-Worldism

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2 weeks ago

On a recent book about the Black Death and the cold reality that solving the problem of Eurocentricity by expanding the geographic scope of a history does not *automatically* produce new insights. Sometimes it just tells you the same story over and over in different settings. ...

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3 weeks ago

Stop saying "lockdown." Stop engaging with people who call what happened in the U.S. during the pandemic a lockdown with out pointing out that no such thing happened here. If we're fated to relitigate COVID for the rest of our lives let's do it from the starting point of what actually happened.

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