Two Priesthoods
My local pharmacy ran out of tablets by the second week.
Theme archive
Musings on Markets and Finance
Markets, finance, money, debt, risk, speculation, and the institutions that move capital.
Force Without a Mission
When a power keeps its strength but loses moral purpose
Sufficiency as Civilisational Threshold
I am not an economist.
The Collapse of the Story
There was a time when power didn’t need to explain itself.
The Car Was Never The Point
Energy in a Civilisation Built to Move
Wearing Clothes & Making Stuff
The future of the apparel and allied industries
Believing the Right Villain
Propaganda in a Comforting Voice
Towards a Theocracy of Capital
When Wealth Becomes a Weapon
Prisons Of Our Own Invention
Industrial Economism and the New Servitude
The Anxiety Economy
Who Profits When You Can't Put The Phone Down
Architecture of Enmity
A coach in a gymnasium in Lima tells a squad of eleven-year-old girls, minutes before a regional match, that the team on the other side of the net are their enemies for the next ninety minutes.
Noisy Activists
The Pilbara runs on diesel the rest of Australia pays for. The mining lobby would rather you didn't say so.
The Pause That Passes For Peace
Why Military Force is Never Sufficient
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