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Author: Paul Campos

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That’s what the money’s for

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On August 24, 2023
One of the more striking features of the Second Gilded Age is that people who are paid gargantuan salaries for decades by what are, legally speaking, tax-exempt charities, along with massive fringe benefits that save them from the inconvenience of having to spend those salaries...
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Rich men north of Richmond

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On August 22, 2023
Speaking of fraud, I estimate the chances this guy actually spent three semesters at Duke as approximately 17%. Check out these lyrics: I wish politicians would look out for miners / And not just minors on an island somewhere / Lord, we got folks in...
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Manufactured insecurity

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On August 18, 2023
Here's an interesting essay, adapted from her forthcoming book, from Astra Taylor, about what she calls "manufactured insecurity." Rather than insecurity about existential questions having to do with survival, death, ultimate meaning and the like, manufactured insecurity is a product of modern consumer capitalism: Existential...

The fire this time

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On August 17, 2023

The north woods are on fire: Hundreds of wildfires burning in Canada’s Northwest Territories have prompted emergency declarations and the evacuation of the capital city of Yellowknife by road and air. About 20,000.

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