INDEX
1 min readMay 7, 2020
Underlined/hyperlinked pieces are finished. The rest are what I plan to write.
The biggest issues, as I see them:
- Technology, Human Obsolescence and a world without work
- Individualism vs Collectivism
- Socially Owned Markets
- Globalised Capital: Tax Havens & Wealth Taxes and the marketplace of nations
- Climate Change & Sustainable Growth
- Fighting the last war: a problem of leadership
Other stuff:
- Labour’s lost decade
- The Field: Democratic Candidates for President
- Interstate Compacts: a way around Federal deadlock?
- BLM: four tiers of white reluctance
- On statues and public veneration
- America’s relationship with China: power or principle?
- What’s the problem with old married blokes? Curiosity, personal growth, mental acuity & relationships later in life
- The Miners’ Strike
- The 70s: what went wrong?
- The Neoliberal Revolution: what the Right got right
- Post-post Modernism and progressive politics
- The Stock Market vs The Economy
- Effective Altruism: a cold heart of gold
- The Great Recession & Labour’s record on the economy
- Lessons from previous Industrial Revolutions
- Electoral Reform
- A (long) history of redistribution
- Moral hazard: who’s allowed to fail?
- Serotonin & The Meaning of Life
- Socialism & the American Golden Age
- How did we arrive at Drug Prohibition?
Tiddlers
- How the British undermined the first currency of the United States
- Who paid for Britain’s wars against Republicanism & Fascism
- How the economics of warfare effect politics
- Information Anarchy: from witch trials to 8chan
