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    <title>The Epstein Files and Russiagate are the Same Thing</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-12T17:04:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://hegemon.substack.com/p/the-epstein-files-and-russiagate</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- This is depressingly persuasive.  For more on something Gutinsky mentions in passing, [https://archive.is/2026.02.06-235924/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/epsteins-network-included-russian-tech-investors-with-past-kremlin-ties/]]]></description>
<dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions corruption the_continuing_crises have_read via:?</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Old World Order is Dead - by Paul Musgrave</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-07T20:36:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://musgrave.substack.com/p/the-old-world-order-is-dead</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>american_hegemony the_continuing_crises via:henry_farrell have_read</dc:subject>
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    <title>Opinion | Europe Has a Bazooka. Time to Use It. - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-07T20:36:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/opinion/europe-independence-trump-greenland.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Why oh why is this illustrated with an EU-themed _anvil_, rather than a bazooka?!?]]></description>
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    <title>A Model of Populism as a Conspiracy Theory - American Economic Association</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We model populism as the dissemination of a false "alternative reality," according to which the intellectual elite conspires against the populist for purely ideological reasons. If enough voters are receptive to it, this alternative reality—by discrediting the elite's truthful message—reduces political accountability. Elite criticism, because it is more consistent with the alternative reality, strengthens receptive voters' support for the populist. Alternative realities are endogenously conspiratorial to resist evidence better. Populists, to leverage or strengthen beliefs in the alternative reality, enact harmful policies that may disproportionately harm the non-elite. These results explain previously unexplained facts about populism."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB conspiracy_theories the_continuing_crises our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Weaponized World Economy: Surviving the New Age of Economic Coercion</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-20T03:58:20+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The United States is faced with a choice: a world in which aggressive American coercion and U.S. hegemonic decline reinforce each other or one in which Washington realigns itself with other liberal-minded countries by forswearing the abuse of its unilateral powers. Not too long ago, American officials and many intellectuals perceived the age of weaponized interdependence and the age of American hegemony as one and the same. Such assumptions now seem outdated, as other countries gain these weapons, too. As during the nuclear era, the United States needs to turn away from unilateralism, toward détente and arms control, and, perhaps in the very long term, toward rebuilding an interdependent global economy on more robust foundations. A failure to do so will put both American security and American prosperity at risk."

--- Shorter Farrell & Newman: "you have no understanding of the consequences of what you do oh and one more thing you aren’t going to like what comes after America".]]></description>
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    <title>The Rich Are Not Like You and Me - by Henry Farrell</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-28T13:59:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-rich-are-not-like-you-and-me</link>
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    <title>Talking With Henry Farrell - Paul Krugman</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-28T13:59:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-with-henry-farrell</link>
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    <title>Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-02T14:09:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature.
"The policy prevents the NSF, one of the world’s biggest supporters of basic research, from awarding new research grants and from supplying allotted funds for existing grants, such as those that receive yearly increments of money. The email does not provide a reason for the freeze and says that it will last “until further notice”."

--- Well, fuck.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://benansell.substack.com/p/donald-trumps-anti-leviathan?triedRedirect=true">
    <title>Donald Trump's Anti-Leviathan - by Ben Ansell</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-28T01:27:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://benansell.substack.com/p/donald-trumps-anti-leviathan?triedRedirect=true</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>have_read our_decrepit_institutions trump.donald us_politics the_continuing_crises</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d885dff97aa0/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:trump.donald"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://thepointmag.com/politics/everything-is-hyperpolitical/">
    <title>Everything Is Hyperpolitical | The Point Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-15T18:27:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://thepointmag.com/politics/everything-is-hyperpolitical/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- I dunno, I may have aged out of finding this sort of cultural criticism (based on the changing moods evoked by the authors' favorite  artists and novelists) worth reading.
--- For something which is otherwise so generous with name-dropping, the absence of any mention of Zeynep Tufecki (especially in the two paragraphs beginning "On the policy front") is something else.]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read cultural_criticism the_continuing_crises via:?</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:bac202ef80c9/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:cultural_criticism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_continuing_crises"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://osf.io/evtrp/">
    <title>OSF Preprints | Political Conspiratorial Beliefs are Likely Over-Estimated and Transitory</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-29T04:12:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://osf.io/evtrp/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Prominent conspiracy beliefs, such as QAnon or 2020 Presidential Election beliefs, constitute a unique form of conspiracy theories that are often explicitly partisan, "politically instrumental conspiracy theories" (PICTs). PICTs can spread rapidly, quickly becoming consensus beliefs among partisan in-groups. But PICTs are not necessarily deeply held, rather primarily serving immediate instrumental partisan needs. We use novel survey list experiments to estimate the prevalence of QAnon and 2020 Presidential Election conspiracy theories in the United States. We find that standard survey techniques likely overestimate the prevalence of PICTs by a factor of $\sim$2. Over-reporting of PICTs is driven by right-wing media consumption (QAnon), and partisanship (2020 Presidential Election). Further, we find that PICT attitudes are heterogeniously related to engagement in political and pro-social behaviors. While the prevalence of PICTs is commonly over-estimated and the beliefs may be transitory, they can serve an instrumental role in the contemporary American electorate."]]></description>
<dc:subject>conspiracy_theories surveys us_politics the_continuing_crises epidemiology_of_representations re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:acc815e5767b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_continuing_crises"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:epidemiology_of_representations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:in_NB"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/rage-giving/7D91A09D64D1514AF3C19F6690A4BD75">
    <title>Rage Giving</title>
    <dc:date>2022-06-30T18:14:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/rage-giving/7D91A09D64D1514AF3C19F6690A4BD75</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["After the 2016 election upheaval and polarized public discourse in the United States and the rise of radical-right and populist parties across the globe, a new phenomenon in online charitable giving has emerged – donating motivated by rage. This Element defines this phenomenon, discusses its meaning amidst the current body of research and knowledge on emotions and charitable giving, the implications of viral fundraising and increased social media use by both donors and nonprofit organizations, the intersectionality of rage giving and its meaning for practitioners and nonprofit organizations, the understanding of giving as a form of civic engagement, and the exploration of philanthropy as a tool for social movements and social change. Previous research shows contextual variation in charitable giving motivations; however, giving motivated by feelings of anger and rage is an unstudied behavioral shift in online giving."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted networked_life emotion the_continuing_crises re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator to_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:cfd52cb06a1c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.thebulwark.com/aleksandr-dugin-putin-brain-russian-prophet-bizarre/">
    <title>The Bizarre Russian Prophet Rumored to Have Putin’s Ear - The Bulwark</title>
    <dc:date>2022-05-12T22:02:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thebulwark.com/aleksandr-dugin-putin-brain-russian-prophet-bizarre/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>traditionalism psychoceramics the_continuing_crises have_read dugin.a.g.</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:666b36426847/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_continuing_crises"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:dugin.a.g."/>
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<item rdf:about="https://twitter.com/henryfarrell/status/1517130400048599043">
    <title>Henry Farrell on Twitter: &quot;1. Glad that Nils alerted me to this, but it seems to me to be a tutelary example of how some economists’ sweet tooth for functionalist explanations can get them into intellectual trouble. The underlying idea is what might be </title>
    <dc:date>2022-04-21T14:09:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/henryfarrell/status/1517130400048599043</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>political_economy the_continuing_crises economics twitter_threads_that_should_be_blog_posts farrell.henry</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6ba6f0a252de/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:economics"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/24/virginia-thomas-mark-meadows-texts/">
    <title>Virginia Thomas urged White House chief to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 election, texts show - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2022-03-27T15:10:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/24/virginia-thomas-mark-meadows-texts/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Need to find the Norman Cohn quote about underworlds of paranoid fantasies occasionally taking power.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read psychoceramica running_dogs_of_reaction the_continuing_crises</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:feda996a8c3d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:running_dogs_of_reaction"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_22_1483">
    <title>Speech by the President: Russian aggression against Ukraine</title>
    <dc:date>2022-03-01T21:16:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_22_1483</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[War has returned to Europe. Almost thirty years after the Balkan Wars, and over half a century after Soviet troops marched into Prague and Budapest, civil defence sirens again went off in the heart of a European capital. Thousands of people fleeing from bombs, camped in underground stations – holding hands, crying silently, trying to cheer each other up. Cars lined up towards Ukrainian Western borders, and when many of them ran out of fuel, people picked up their children and their backpacks and marched for tens of kilometres towards our Union. They sought refuge inside our borders, because their country was not safe any longer. Because inside Ukraine, a gruesome death count has begun. Men, women, children are dying, once again, because a foreign leader, President Putin, decided that their country, Ukraine, has no right to exist. And we will never ever let that happen and never ever accept that.

Honourable Members,

This is a moment of truth for Europe. Let me quote the editorial of one Ukrainian newspaper, the Kyiv Independent, published just hours before the invasion began: ‘This is not just about Ukraine. It is a clash of two worlds, two polar sets of values.' They are so right. This is a clash between the rule of law and the rule of the gun; between democracies and autocracies; between a rules-based order and a world of naked aggression. How we respond today to what Russia is doing will determine the future of the international system. The destiny of Ukraine is at stake, but our own fate also lies in the balance. We must show the power that lies in our democracies; we must show the power of people that choose their independent paths, freely and democratically. This is our show of force.

Today, a Union of almost half a billion people has mobilised for Ukraine. The people of Europe are demonstrating in front of Russian embassies all across our Union. Many of them have opened their homes to Ukrainians – fleeing from Putin's bombs. And let me thank especially Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary for welcoming these women, men and children. Europe will be there for them, not only in the first days, but also in the weeks and months to come. That must be our promise altogether. And this is why we are proposing to activate the temporary protection mechanism to provide them with a secure status and access to schools, medical care and work. They deserve it. We need to do that now. We know this is only the beginning. More Ukrainians will need our protection and solidarity. We are and we will be there for them.

Our Union is showing a unity of purpose that makes me proud. At the speed of light, the European Union has adopted three waves of heavy sanctions against Russia's financial system, its high-tech industries and its corrupt elite. This is the largest sanctions package in our Union's history. We do not take these measures lightly, but we feel we had to act. These sanctions will take a heavy toll on the Russian economy and on the Kremlin. We are disconnecting key Russian banks from the SWIFT network. We also banned the transactions of Russia's central bank, the single most important financial institution in Russia. This paralyses billions in foreign reserves, turning off the tap on Russia's and Putin's war. We have to end this financing of his war.

Second, we target important sectors of the Russian economy. We are making it impossible for Russia to upgrade its oil refineries; to repair and modernise its air fleet; and to access many important technologies it needs to build a prosperous future. We have closed our skies to Russian aircraft, including the private jets of oligarchs. And make no mistake: We will freeze their other assets as well – be it yachts or fancy cars or luxury properties. We will freeze that altogether.

Thirdly, in another unprecedented step, we are suspending the licences of the Kremlin's propaganda machine. The state-owned Russia Today and Sputnik, and all of their subsidiaries, will no longer be able to spread their lies to justify Putin's war and to divide our Union. These are unprecedented actions by the European Union and our partners in response to an unprecedented aggression by Russia.

Each one of these steps has been closely coordinated with our partners and allies, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Norway, but also, for example, Japan, South Korea and Australia. All of these days, you see that more than 30 countries – representing well over half of the world's economy – have also announced sanctions and export controls on Russia. If Putin was seeking to divide the European Union, to weaken NATO, and to break the international community, he has achieved exactly the opposite. We are more united than ever and we will stand up in this war, that is for sure that we will overcome and we will prevail. We are united and we stay united.

Honourable Members,

I am well aware that these sanctions will come at a cost for our economy, too. I know this, and I want to speak honestly to the people of Europe. We have endured two years of pandemic. And we all wished that we could focus on our economic and social recovery. But I believe that the people of Europe understand very well that we must stand up against this cruel aggression. Yes, protecting our liberty comes at a price. But this is a defining moment. And this is the cost we are willing to pay. Because freedom is priceless, Honourable Members. This is our principle: Freedom is priceless.

Our investments today will make us more independent tomorrow. I am thinking, first and foremost, about our energy security. We simply cannot rely so much on a supplier that explicitly threatens us. This is why we reached out to other global suppliers. And they responded. Norway is stepping up. In January, we had a record supply of LNG gas. We are building new LNG terminals and working on interconnectors. But in the long run, it is our switch to renewables and hydrogen that will make us truly independent. We have to accelerate the green transition. Because every kilowatt-hour of electricity Europe generates from solar, wind, hydropower or biomass reduces our dependency on Russian gas and other energy sources. This is a strategic investment. And my Honourable Members, this is a strategic investment, because on top, less dependency on Russian gas and other fossil fuel sources also means less money for the Kremlin's war chest. This is also a truth.

We are resolute, Europe can rise up to the challenge. The same is true on defence. European security and defence has evolved more in the last six days than in the last two decades. Most Member States have promised deliveries of military equipment to Ukraine. Germany announced that it will meet the 2% goal of NATO as soon as possible. And our Union, for the first time ever, is using the European budget to purchase and deliver military equipment to a country that is under attack. EUR 500 million from the European Peace Facility, to support Ukraine's defence. As a first batch, we will now also match this by at least EUR 500 million from the EU budget to deal with the humanitarian consequences of this tragic war, both in the country and for the refugees.

Honourable Members,

This is a watershed moment for our Union. We cannot take our security and the protection of people for granted. We have to stand up for it. We have to invest in it. We have to carry our fair share of the responsibility.

This crisis is changing Europe. But Russia has also reached a crossroads. The actions of the Kremlin are severely damaging the long-term interests of Russia and its people. More and more Russians understand this as well. They are marching for peace and freedom. And how does the Kremlin respond to this? By arresting thousands of them. But ultimately, the longing for peace and freedom cannot be silenced. There is another Russia besides Putin's tanks. And we extend our hand of friendship to this other Russia. Be assured, they have our support.

Honourable Members,

In these days, independent Ukraine is facing its darkest hour. At the same time, the Ukrainian people are holding up the torch of freedom for all of us. They are showing immense courage. They are defending their lives. But they are also fighting for universal values and they are willing to die for them. President Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people are a true inspiration. When we last spoke, he told me again about his people's dream to join our Union. Today, the European Union and Ukraine are already closer than ever before. There is still a long path ahead. We have to end this war. And we should talk about the next steps. But I am sure: Nobody in this hemicycle can doubt that a people that stands up so bravely for our European values belongs in our European family.

And therefore, Honourable Members, I say: Long live Europe. And long live a free and independent Ukraine.

My z vamy. Slava Ukraini.]]></description>
<dc:subject>the_continuing_crises via:henry_farrell europe have_read via:henryfarrell</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://chrisblattman.com/2022/01/31/why-i-do-not-expect-a-civil-war-in-america-and-what-does-worry-me/">
    <title>Why I do not expect a civil war in America (and what does worry me) - Chris Blattman</title>
    <dc:date>2022-02-01T15:19:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://chrisblattman.com/2022/01/31/why-i-do-not-expect-a-civil-war-in-america-and-what-does-worry-me/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is very good.  (The bits about Polity scores are disturbing / infuriating / blackly funny.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics the_continuing_crises violence political_science have_read blattman.chris social_measurement via:?</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f9b1f06e3628/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/american-resistance/9780231187657">
    <title>American Resistance | Columbia University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2021-08-15T13:59:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://cup.columbia.edu/book/american-resistance/9780231187657</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Since Donald Trump’s first day in office, a large and energetic grassroots “Resistance” has taken to the streets to protest his administration’s plans for the United States. Millions marched in pussy hats on the day after the inauguration; outraged citizens flocked to airports to declare that America must be open to immigrants; masses of demonstrators circled the White House to demand action on climate change; and that was only the beginning. Who are the millions of people marching against the Trump administration, how are they connected to the Blue Wave that washed over the U.S. Congress in 2018—and what does it all mean for the future of American democracy?
"American Resistance traces activists from the streets back to the communities and congressional districts around the country where they live, work, and vote. Using innovative survey data and interviews with key players, Dana R. Fisher analyzes how Resistance groups have channeled outrage into activism, using distributed organizing to make activism possible by anyone from anywhere, whenever and wherever it is needed most. Beginning with the first Women’s March and following the movement through the 2018 midterms, Fisher demonstrates how the energy and enthusiasm of the Resistance paid off in a wave of Democratic victories. She reveals how the Left rebounded from the devastating 2016 election, the lessons for turning grassroots passion into electoral gains, and what comes next. American Resistance explains the organizing that is revitalizing democracy to counter Trump’s presidency."

--- This (interesting-looking) book essentially goes up to late 2018. 
 It came out in February 2021.  In the meanwhile, a lot of things happened which cast the events of its period in a new light.  There's something about the time scales of doing scholarship about current events and about academic publishing here...
]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted us_politics the_continuing_crises to_download</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://jacobinmag.com/2021/07/jacob-zuma-south-africa-looting-riots-kwazulu-natal">
    <title>There Is No Silver Lining to South Africa’s Zuma Insurrection</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-16T16:39:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://jacobinmag.com/2021/07/jacob-zuma-south-africa-looting-riots-kwazulu-natal</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I know nothing about the situation but this doesn't sound good.]]></description>
<dc:subject>the_continuing_crises</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-ended-his-blog-because-there-s-more-being-influencer-ncna1269523">
    <title>Trump ended his blog because there's more to being an influencer than just wanting attention</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-09T21:31:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-ended-his-blog-because-there-s-more-being-influencer-ncna1269523</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>trump.donald cox.ana_marie social_media the_continuing_crises</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d5f9e994be68/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/capitol-rioters-trump-defense-comes-up-again-and-again-will-it-make-a-difference">
    <title>Capitol Rioters’ ‘Trump Defense’ Comes Up Again And Again. Will It Make A Difference? | Talking Points Memo</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-18T21:58:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/capitol-rioters-trump-defense-comes-up-again-and-again-will-it-make-a-difference</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Watkins, the “Q Shaman” Jacob Chansley’s attorney, said his client had Asperger’s syndrome and indicated that Chansley’s mental state — and the impact of Trump’s “propaganda” efforts — would play a role in his case. 
"“A lot of these defendants — and I’m going to use this colloquial term, perhaps disrespectfully — but they’re all fucking short-bus people,” Watkins told TPM. “These are people with brain damage, they’re fucking retarded, they’re on the goddamn spectrum.” 
"“But they’re our brothers, our sisters, our neighbors, our coworkers — they’re part of our country. These aren’t bad people, they don’t have prior criminal history. Fuck, they were subjected to four-plus years of goddamn propaganda the likes of which the world has not seen since fucking Hitler.” "
]]></description>
<dc:subject>the_continuing_crises our_decrepit_institutions crime us_politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b2c168dbf3e5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n08/adam-tooze/the-gatekeeper">
    <title>Adam Tooze · The Gatekeeper: Krugman’s Conversion · LRB 22 April 2021</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-01T00:52:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n08/adam-tooze/the-gatekeeper</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>krugman.paul economics history_of_ideas tooze.adam us_politics class_struggles_in_america whats_gone_wrong_with_america the_continuing_crises lives_of_the_scholars</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:dde03606fa56/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:history_of_ideas"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:whats_gone_wrong_with_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_continuing_crises"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:lives_of_the_scholars"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://twitter.com/Cavalorn/status/654934442549620736">
    <title>Adrian Bott on Twitter: &quot;'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.&quot; / Twitter</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-17T01:47:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/Cavalorn/status/654934442549620736</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bookmarked for reference.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:pointed funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming the_continuing_crises</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4c4feca57947/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://aelkus.github.io/void/2020/06/01/opening">
    <title>Hic Sunt Dracones</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-03T19:31:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aelkus.github.io/void/2020/06/01/opening</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions the_continuing_crises coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019--</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:860335d16ff6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019--"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/01/us-coronavirus-leading-world-america-first/">
    <title>In the Coronavirus Pandemic, America Is Ailing—and Flexing Its Global Muscle Like Never Before</title>
    <dc:date>2020-04-01T20:09:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/01/us-coronavirus-leading-world-america-first/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The U.S. president’s coronavirus response is a contradictory, incoherent shambles. And many people will die as a result. But that doesn’t make this a post-American world. This is precisely what a world entangled with and exposed to America’s incoherent and erratic system of power looks like."]]></description>
<dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions the_continuing_crises american_hegemony coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019-- tooze.adam</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f4d20cda46bb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/2020/3/28/21195207/coronavirus-covid-19-financial-crisis-economy-depression-recession">
    <title>Understanding the financial crisis that coronavirus could cause - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2020-03-30T13:58:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2020/3/28/21195207/coronavirus-covid-19-financial-crisis-economy-depression-recession</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>tooze.adam finance the_continuing_crises coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019--</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b773dfe5fa3b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_continuing_crises"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019--"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/opinion/airlines-bailout.html">
    <title>Opinion | Don’t Feel Sorry for the Airlines - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2020-03-18T19:59:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/opinion/airlines-bailout.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>market_failures_in_everything imperfect_competition airlines the_continuing_crises wu.tim</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7e0b05d22739/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:wu.tim"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://aelkus.github.io/problem/2020/03/12/uber">
    <title>Your Crackhead Uber Has Arrived</title>
    <dc:date>2020-03-12T19:52:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aelkus.github.io/problem/2020/03/12/uber</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>the_continuing_crises us_politics trump.donald</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6ecbbc0fd922/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:trump.donald"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/opinion/trump-iran-soleimani.html">
    <title>Opinion | The Trump We Did Not Want to See - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-09T15:16:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/opinion/trump-iran-soleimani.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Much of the work of H.P. Lovecraft, an American horror and science fiction writer who worked during the first decades of the 20th century, is defined by individual encounters with the incomprehensible, with sights, sounds and ideas that undermine and disturb reality as his characters understand it. Faced with things too monstrous to be real, but which exist nonetheless, Lovecraftian protagonists either reject their senses or descend into madness, unable to live with what they’ve learned.
"It feels, at times, that when it comes to Donald Trump, our political class is this Lovecraftian protagonist, struggling to understand an incomprehensibly abnormal president. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics the_continuing_crises trump.donald cthulhiana</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1a11136c78c3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_continuing_crises"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:trump.donald"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20181164">
    <title>Did Austerity Cause Brexit?</title>
    <dc:date>2019-10-29T15:27:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20181164</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This paper documents a significant association between the exposure of an individual or area to the UK government's austerity-induced welfare reforms begun in 2010, and the following: the subsequent rise in support for the UK Independence Party, an important correlate of Leave support in the 2016 UK referendum on European Union membership; broader individual-level measures of political dissatisfaction; and direct measures of support for Leave. Leveraging data from all UK electoral contests since 2000, along with detailed, individual-level panel data, the findings suggest that the EU referendum could have resulted in a Remain victory had it not been for austerity."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB causal_inference economics political_economy the_continuing_crises</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a728742d6f99/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27429">
    <title>Full Spectrum Dominance: Irregular Warfare and the War on Terror | Maria Ryan</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-26T18:48:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27429</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["America's war on terror is widely defined by the Afghanistan and Iraq fronts. Yet, as this book demonstrates, both the international campaign and the new ways of fighting that grew out of it played out across multiple fronts beyond the Middle East. Maria Ryan explores how secondary fronts in the Philippines, sub-Saharan Africa, Georgia, and the Caspian Sea Basin became key test sites for developing what the Department of Defense called "full spectrum dominance": mastery across the entire range of possible conflict, from conventional through irregular warfare.
"Full Spectrum Dominance is the first sustained historical examination of the secondary fronts in the war on terror. It explores whether irregular warfare has been effective in creating global stability or if new terrorist groups have emerged in response to the intervention. As the U.S. military, Department of Defense, White House, and State Department have increasingly turned to irregular capabilities and objectives, understanding the underlying causes as well as the effects of the quest for full spectrum dominance become ever more important. The development of irregular strategies has left a deeply ambiguous and concerning global legacy."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted american_hegemony the_continuing_crises how_war_became_everything_and_everything_became_war us_military books:suggest_to_library</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3b319533bf58/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n07/adam-tooze/is-this-the-end-of-the-american-century">
    <title>Adam Tooze · Is this the end of the American century?: America Pivots · LRB 4 April 2019</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-04T04:27:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n07/adam-tooze/is-this-the-end-of-the-american-century</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As of today, two years into the Trump presidency, it is a gross exaggeration to talk of an end to the American world order. The two pillars of its global power – military and financial – are still firmly in place. What has ended is any claim on the part of American democracy to provide a political model. This is certainly a historic break. Trump closes the chapter begun by Woodrow Wilson in the First World War, with his claim that American democracy articulated the deepest feelings of liberal humanity. A hundred years later, Trump has for ever personified the sleaziness, cynicism and sheer stupidity that dominates much of American political life. What we are facing is a radical disjunction between the continuity of basic structures of power and their political legitimation.
"If America’s president mounted on a golf buggy is a suitably ludicrous emblem of our current moment, the danger is that it suggests far too pastoral a scenario: American power trundling to retirement across manicured lawns. That is not our reality. Imagine instead the president and his buggy careening around the five-acre flight deck of a $13 billion, Ford-class, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier engaged in ‘dynamic force deployment’ to the South China Sea. That better captures the surreal revival of great-power politics that hangs over the present. Whether this turns out to be a violent and futile rearguard action, or a new chapter in the age of American world power, remains to be seen."]]></description>
<dc:subject>tooze.adam the_continuing_crises us_politics american_hegemony have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d1fe8ed53eae/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29268">
    <title>Under Contract: The Invisible Workers of America's Global War | Noah Coburn</title>
    <dc:date>2018-09-18T00:07:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29268</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["War is one of the most lucrative job markets for an increasingly global workforce. Most of the work on American bases, everything from manning guard towers to cleaning the latrines to more technical engineering and accounting jobs, has been outsourced to private firms that then contract out individual jobs, often to the lowest bidder. An "American" base in Afghanistan or Iraq will be staffed with workers from places like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Turkey, Bosnia, and Nepal: so-called "third-country nationals." Tens of thousands of these workers are now fixtures on American bases. Yet, in the plethora of records kept by the U.S. government, they are unseen and uncounted—their stories untold.
"Noah Coburn traces this unseen workforce across seven countries, following the workers' often zigzagging journey to war. He confronts the varied conditions third-country nationals encounter, ranging from near slavery to more mundane forms of exploitation. Visiting a British Imperial training camp in Nepal, U.S. bases in Afghanistan, a café in Tbilisi, offices in Ankara, and human traffickers in Delhi, Coburn seeks out a better understanding of the people who make up this unseen workforce, sharing powerful stories of hope and struggle.
"Part memoir, part travelogue, and part retelling of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of workers, Under Contract unspools a complex global web of how modern wars are fought and supported, narrating war stories unlike any other. Coburn's experience forces readers to reckon with the moral questions of a hidden global war-force and the costs being shouldered by foreign nationals in our name."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted us_military american_hegemony the_continuing_crises us-afghan_war</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d2e89b77326a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR789.html">
    <title>The Advent Of Netwar | RAND</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-03T03:02:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR789.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The information revolution is leading to the rise of network forms of organization, with unusual implications for how societies are organized and conflicts are conducted. "Netwar" is an emerging consequence. The term refers to societal conflict and crime, short of war, in which the antagonists are organized more as sprawling "leaderless" networks than as tight-knit hierarchies. Many terrorists, criminals, fundamentalists, and ethno-nationalists are developing netwar capabilities. A new generation of revolutionaries and militant radicals is also emerging, with new doctrines, strategies, and technologies that support their reliance on network forms of organization. Netwar may be the dominant mode of societal conflict in the 21st century. These conclusions are implied by the evolution of societies, according to a framework presented in this RAND study. The emergence of netwar raises the need to rethink strategy and doctrine to conduct counternetwar. Traditional notions of war and low-intensity conflict as a sequential process based on massing, maneuvering, and fighting will likely prove inadequate to cope with nonlinear, swarm-like, information-age conflicts in which societal and military elements are closely intermingled."

--- I remember being somewhat scornful of such ideas c. 2000, but they may merit revisiting.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB social_networks the_continuing_crises via:?</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f57af3407ebe/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/opinion/qanon-trump-conspiracy-theory.html?action=click&amp;module=TrendingGrid&amp;region=TrendingTop&amp;pgtype=collection">
    <title>Opinion | The Conspiracy Theory That Says Trump Is a Genius - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-10T22:33:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/opinion/qanon-trump-conspiracy-theory.html?action=click&amp;module=TrendingGrid&amp;region=TrendingTop&amp;pgtype=collection</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The creativity poured into QAnon is striking; it’s like something between a sprawling work of crowdsourced postmodern fiction and an immersive role-playing game."

--- The whole thing is worth reading, and following up on.  Three observations, in decreasing order of seriousness:
1. This template for the Diabolical Conspiracy is much older than Christian fears about Jews; the Romans applied it to the Christians, among others ( http://bactra.org/notebooks/conspiracy-theories.html ).
2. The history of ideas becomes much more comprehensible, and terrifying, once one realizes that the paragraph I quoted applies to (nearly) _every mythology and ideology ever_.
3. Finally, since about mid-2015, I feel we have been living in a Walter Jon Williams novel, _and I wish he'd cut it out_.]]></description>
<dc:subject>conspiracy_theories the_continuing_crises trump.donald goldberg.michelle natural_history_of_truthiness epidemiology_of_representations the_mythopoetic_process_at_work</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/01/17/american-democracy-was-asking-for-it/">
    <title>American Democracy Is an Easy Target – Foreign Policy</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-06T14:57:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/01/17/american-democracy-was-asking-for-it/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy us_politics our_decrepit_institutions networked_life kith_and_kin farrell.henry have_read the_continuing_crises political_science social_life_of_the_mind re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networked_life"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:farrell.henry"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n01/adam-tooze/a-general-logic-of-crisis">
    <title>Adam Tooze reviews ‘How Will Capitalism End?’ by Wolfgang Streeck · LRB 5 January 2017</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-18T20:51:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n01/adam-tooze/a-general-logic-of-crisis</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>the_continuing_crises political_economy book_reviews have_read tooze.adam</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520293199">
    <title>The Pitfalls of Protection - Torunn Wimpelmann - Paperback - University of California Press</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-08T22:06:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520293199</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Since the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, violence against women has emerged as the single most important issue for Afghan gender politics. The Pitfalls of Protection, based on research conducted in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2015, locates the struggles over gender violence in local and global power configurations. The author finds that aid flows and geopolitics have served as both opportunities and obstacles to feminist politics in Afghanistan. Showing why Afghan activists often chose to use the leverage of Western powers instead of entering into either protracted negotiations with powerful national actors or broad political mobilization, the book examines both the achievements and the limits of this strategy. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted afghanistan the_continuing_crises feminism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:96af71dedcde/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo20310364">
    <title>Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan, O'Connell</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-19T20:33:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo20310364</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The first rule of warfare is to know one’s enemy. The second is to know thyself. More than fifteen years and three quarters of a trillion dollars after the US invasion of Afghanistan, it’s clear that the United States followed neither rule well.
"America’s goals in Afghanistan were lofty to begin with: dismantle al Qaeda, remove the Taliban from power, remake the country into a democracy. But not only did the mission come completely unmoored from reality, the United States wasted billions of dollars, and thousands of lives were lost. Our Latest Longest War is a chronicle of how, why, and in what ways the war in Afghanistan failed. Edited by historian and Marine lieutenant colonel Aaron B. O’Connell, the essays collected here represent nine different perspectives on the war—all from veterans of the conflict, both American and Afghan. Together, they paint a picture of a war in which problems of culture and an unbridgeable rural-urban divide derailed nearly every field of endeavor. The authors also draw troubling parallels to the Vietnam War, arguing that deep-running ideological currents in American life explain why the US government has repeatedly used armed nation-building to try to transform failing states into modern, liberal democracies. In Afghanistan, as in Vietnam, this created a dramatic mismatch of means and ends that neither money, technology, nor the force of arms could overcome.
"The war in Afghanistan has been the longest in US history, and in many ways, the most confounding.  Few who fought in it think it has been worthwhile.  These are difficult topics for any American or Afghan to consider, especially those who lost friends or family in it. This sobering history—written by the very people who have been fighting the war—is impossible to ignore."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted afghanistan us_military the_continuing_crises</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b229cc33daf9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://bostonreview.net/war-security-politics-global-justice/alex-de-waal-garrison-america-and-threat-global-war">
    <title>Garrison America and the Threat of Global War | Boston Review</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-09T01:14:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://bostonreview.net/war-security-politics-global-justice/alex-de-waal-garrison-america-and-threat-global-war</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This seems like a lamentably plausible scenario.]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read our_decrepit_institutions the_continuing_crises us_politics</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:dd3d33bc78eb/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_continuing_crises"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/09/29/sy-hersh-osama-bin-laden-right-and-wrong/">
    <title>Sy Hersh and Osama bin Laden: The Right and the Wrong by Ahmed Rashid | The New York Review of Books</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-03T18:46:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/09/29/sy-hersh-osama-bin-laden-right-and-wrong/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[That'd be almost all wrong, then.]]></description>
<dc:subject>the_continuing_crises bin_laden.osama us_military hersh.seymour</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8f854ffd5fb2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10395.html">
    <title>Bail, C.A.: Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream. (eBook, Paperback and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-17T15:36:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10395.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of a small fundamentalist church in Florida, announced plans to burn two hundred Qur’ans on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Though he ended up canceling the stunt in the face of widespread public backlash, his threat sparked violent protests across the Muslim world that left at least twenty people dead. In Terrified, Christopher Bail demonstrates how the beliefs of fanatics like Jones are inspired by a rapidly expanding network of anti-Muslim organizations that exert profound influence on American understanding of Islam.
"Bail traces how the anti-Muslim narrative of the political fringe has captivated large segments of the American media, government, and general public, validating the views of extremists who argue that the United States is at war with Islam and marginalizing mainstream Muslim-Americans who are uniquely positioned to discredit such claims. Drawing on cultural sociology, social network theory, and social psychology, he shows how anti-Muslim organizations gained visibility in the public sphere, commandeered a sense of legitimacy, and redefined the contours of contemporary debate, shifting it ever outward toward the fringe. Bail illustrates his pioneering theoretical argument through a big-data analysis of more than one hundred organizations struggling to shape public discourse about Islam, tracing their impact on hundreds of thousands of newspaper articles, television transcripts, legislative debates, and social media messages produced since the September 11 attacks. The book also features in-depth interviews with the leaders of these organizations, providing a rare look at how anti-Muslim organizations entered the American mainstream."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted islamophobia running_dogs_of_reaction social_movements whats_gone_wrong_with_america the_continuing_crises</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1965f70fa896/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://soundcloud.com/officialsxsw/closing-remarks-bruce-sterling-sxsw-interactive-2016">
    <title>▶ Closing Remarks: Bruce Sterling - SXSW Interactive 2016 by SXSW</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-19T04:39:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://soundcloud.com/officialsxsw/closing-remarks-bruce-sterling-sxsw-interactive-2016</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Dr. Amanda Southby" is good.]]></description>
<dc:subject>sterling.bruce the_continuing_crises</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1d568900588d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=26145">
    <title>Losing Afghanistan: An Obituary for the Intervention | Noah Coburn</title>
    <dc:date>2016-02-22T21:34:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=26145</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan mobilized troops, funds, and people on an international level not seen since World War II. Hundreds of thousands of individuals and tens of billions of dollars flowed into the country. But what was gained for Afghanistan—or for the international community that footed the bill? Why did development money not lead to more development? Why did a military presence make things more dangerous?
"Through the stories of four individuals—an ambassador, a Navy SEAL, a young Afghan businessman, and a wind energy engineer—Noah Coburn weaves a vivid account of the challenges and contradictions of life during the intervention. Looking particularly at the communities around Bagram Airbase, this ethnography considers how Afghans viewed and attempted to use the intervention and how those at the base tried to understand the communities around them. These compelling stories step outside the tired paradigms of 'unruly' Afghan tribes, an effective Taliban resistance, and a corrupt Karzai government to show how the intervention became an entity unto itself, one doomed to collapse under the weight of its own bureaucracy and contradictory intentions."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted afghanistan us_military ethnography the_continuing_crises</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/02/the-nsas-skynet-program-may-be-killing-thousands-of-innocent-people/">
    <title>The NSA’s SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people | Ars Technica UK</title>
    <dc:date>2016-02-16T17:56:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/02/the-nsas-skynet-program-may-be-killing-thousands-of-innocent-people/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We have much to answer for.]]></description>
<dc:subject>the_continuing_crises national_surveillance_state machine_learning classifiers cross-validation bad_data_analysis terrorism_fears drones decision_trees ensemble_methods to_teach:data-mining to:blog random_forests</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10638.html">
    <title>Kutz, C.: On War and Democracy (eBook and Hardcover).</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-26T17:02:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10638.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["On War and Democracy provides a richly nuanced examination of the moral justifications democracies often invoke to wage war. In this compelling and provocative book, Christopher Kutz argues that democratic principles can be both fertile and toxic ground for the project of limiting war’s violence. Only by learning to view war as limited by our democratic values—rather than as a tool for promoting them—can we hope to arrest the slide toward the borderless, seemingly endless democratic "holy wars" and campaigns of remote killings we are witnessing today, and to stop permanently the use of torture and secret law.
"Kutz shows how our democratic values, understood incautiously and incorrectly, can actually undermine the goal of limiting war. He helps us better understand why we are tempted to believe that collective violence in the name of politics can be legitimate when individual violence is not. In doing so, he offers a bold new account of democratic agency that acknowledges the need for national defense and the promotion of liberty abroad while limiting the temptations of military intervention. Kutz demonstrates why we must address concerns about the means of waging war—including remote war and surveillance—and why we must create institutions to safeguard some nondemocratic values, such as dignity and martial honor, from the threat of democratic politics."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted war democracy political_philosophy the_continuing_crises in_NB color_me_skeptical</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://sup.org/books/title/?id=25447">
    <title>The Polythink Syndrome: U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions on 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and ISIS | Alex Mintz and Carly Wayne</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-28T01:27:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sup.org/books/title/?id=25447</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why do presidents and their advisors often make sub-optimal decisions on military intervention, escalation, de-escalation, and termination of conflicts?
"The leading concept of group dynamics, groupthink, offers one explanation: policy-making groups make sub-optimal decisions due to their desire for conformity and uniformity over dissent, leading to a failure to consider other relevant possibilities. But presidential advisory groups are often fragmented and divisive. This book therefore scrutinizes polythink, a group decision-making dynamic whereby different members in a decision-making unit espouse a plurality of opinions and divergent policy prescriptions, resulting in a disjointed decision-making process or even decision paralysis.
"The book analyzes eleven national security decisions, including the national security policy designed prior to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the decisions to enter into and withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq, the 2007 "surge" decision, the crisis over the Iranian nuclear program, the UN Security Council decision on the Syrian Civil War, the faltering Kerry Peace Process in the Middle East, and the U.S. decision on military operations against ISIS.
"Based on the analysis of these case studies, the authors address implications of the polythink phenomenon, including prescriptions for avoiding and/or overcoming it, and develop strategies and tools for what they call Productive Polythink. The authors also show the applicability of polythink to business, industry, and everyday decisions."

--- I am... intrigued, for want of a better word, by the idea that the problem with the US decision to invade Iraq was that too many people considered too many different options.]]></description>
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    <title>The Plight of Refugees, the Shame of the World - The New York Times</title>
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<item rdf:about="http://theweek.com/articles/532941/obama-great-president-fast">
    <title>Is Obama a great president? Not so fast.</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-15T03:32:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://theweek.com/articles/532941/obama-great-president-fast</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This was what I was worried about back in 2008, that the security state was so locked in, and what domestic opposition there is to it so politically negligible, that very little would shift for the better, certainly not so much that we'd not disgrace ourselves again the next time there was a crisis.  Which seems like where we are.  (ObHistoricalAnalogy: the combination of expanding the welfare state at home and disgraceful militarism brings to mind LBJ, but both are somehow muted.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics obama.barack our_national_shame the_continuing_crises have_read via:henry_farrell</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://cambridge.org/9781107462809">
    <title>A Political Economy of American Hegemony: Military Buildups, Booms, and Busts | Political economy | Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-14T14:43:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cambridge.org/9781107462809</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In Buildups, Booms, and Busts, Thomas Oatley explores how America's military buildups have produced postwar economic booms that have culminated in monetary and financial crises. The 2008 subprime crisis – as well as the housing bubble that produced it – was the most recent manifestation of this buildup, boom, and bust cycle, developing as a consequence of the decision to deficit finance the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Earlier instances of financial crises were generated by deficit-financed buildups in the 1980s and the late 1960s. The buildup, boom, and bust pattern results from the way political institutions and financial power shape America's response to military challenges: political institutions transform increased military spending into budget deficits, and financial power enables the United States to finance these deficits by borrowing cheaply from the rest of the world. Oatley examines how this cycle has had a powerful impact on American and global economic and financial performance."]]></description>
<dc:subject>political_economy us_politics us_military financial_crisis_of_2007-- us-iraq_war the_continuing_crises in_NB books:recommended oatley.thomas</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/06/afghanistan-shocking-indictment/">
    <title>Afghanistan: ‘A Shocking Indictment’ by Rory Stewart | The New York Review of Books</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-21T16:40:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/06/afghanistan-shocking-indictment/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted book_reviews afghanistan the_continuing_crises state-building corruption war</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.propublica.org/article/disgraced-senior-cia-official-heads-to-prison-still-claiming-hes-a-patriot">
    <title>Disgraced Senior CIA Official Heads to Prison Still Claiming He’s a Patriot - ProPublica</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-30T14:31:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.propublica.org/article/disgraced-senior-cia-official-heads-to-prison-still-claiming-hes-a-patriot</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Now there are names I haven't heard for a long time.  Ah, the memories...]]></description>
<dc:subject>corruption military_industrial_complex the_continuing_crises to:blog</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://news.vice.com/article/muslim-scholars-make-the-theological-case-against-the-islamic-state">
    <title>Muslim Scholars Make the Theological Case Against the Islamic State | VICE News</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-25T15:20:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://news.vice.com/article/muslim-scholars-make-the-theological-case-against-the-islamic-state</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>the_continuing_crises islam have_read via:?</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:01e210e60701/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://global.oup.com/academic/product/an-enemy-we-created-9780199325252?cc=us&amp;lang=en#">
    <title>An Enemy We Created - Alex Strick van Linschoten; Felix Kuehn - Oxford University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-13T22:01:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://global.oup.com/academic/product/an-enemy-we-created-9780199325252?cc=us&amp;lang=en#</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["To this day, the belief is widespread that the Taliban and al-Qaeda are synonymous, that their ideology and objectives are closely intertwined, and that they have made common cause against the West for decades. 
"In An Enemy We Created, Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn debunk this myth and reveal the much more complex reality that lies beneath it. Drawing upon their unprecedented fieldwork in Afghanistan, as well as their Arabic, Dari, and Pashtu skills, the authors show that the West's present entanglement in Afghanistan is predicated on the false assumption that defeating the Taliban will forestall further terrorist attacks worldwide. While immersing themselves in Kandahar society, the authors interviewed Taliban decision-makers, field commanders, and ordinary fighters, thoroughly exploring the complexity of the relationship between the Taliban and al-Qaeda and the individuals who established both groups. They show that from the mid-1990s onward, the Taliban and al-Qaeda diverged far more often than they converged. They also argue that this split creates an opportunity to engage the Taliban on two fundamental issues: renouncing al-Qaeda and guaranteeing that Afghanistan will not be a sanctuary for international terrorists. Yet the insurgency is changing, and it could soon be too late to find a political solution. The authors contend that certain aspects of the campaign in Afghanistan, especially night raids, the killings of innocent civilians, and attempts to fragment and decapitate the Taliban are having the unintended consequence of energizing the resistance, creating more opportunities for al-Qaeda, and helping it to attain its objectives. 
"The first book to fully untangle the myths from the realities in the relationship between the Taliban and al-Qaeda, An Enemy We Created is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what's really happening in Afghanistan."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10149.html">
    <title>Auerswald, D. and Saideman, S.: NATO in Afghanistan: Fighting Together, Fighting Alone. (eBook and Cloth)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-16T02:13:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10149.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["NATO in Afghanistan explores how government structures and party politics in NATO countries shape how battles are waged in the field. Drawing on more than 250 interviews with senior officials from around the world, David Auerswald and Stephen Saideman find that domestic constraints in presidential and single-party parliamentary systems--in countries such as the United States and Britain respectively--differ from those in countries with coalition governments, such as Germany and the Netherlands. As a result, different countries craft different guidelines for their forces overseas, most notably in the form of military caveats, the often-controversial limits placed on deployed troops."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2301579">
    <title>The Partisan Dynamics of Networks, Coalitions, and Organizations in the Antiwar Movement after 9/11 by Michael T. Heaney :: SSRN</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-22T19:10:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2301579</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This paper is Chapter 5 of a book manuscript titled, Party in the Street: the Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11. The book develops the concept of the party in the street, which is the space in which social movements and political parties intersect. We argue that this space is relevant to the politics of movements and parties because the actors within it – which we call movement-partisans – are conflicted in their identities as participants in the movement and participants in the parties. Because partisan identification is, in general, stronger than movement identification, partisan identities tend to drive the mobilizations cycles of social movements. The book manuscript tests this idea at three levels: activists, organizations, and legislators. This particular chapter focuses organizations. It looks at the partisan dynamics of organizational networks, coalitions of organizations, and three organizational case studies. Each of these sets of evidence supports the proposition that partisan identification shapes the way that organizations participated in the antiwar movement."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-weirdest-things-weve-learned-since-911/">
    <title>The 6 Weirdest Things We've Learned Since 9/11 | Cracked.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-12T16:19:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-weirdest-things-weve-learned-since-911/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Onion has competition in the online-saitre-can-tell-it-straight department.]]></description>
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    <title>The Ecuadorian Library — Geek Empire — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-04T19:54:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/geek-empire-1/a1ebd2b4a0e5</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>the_continuing_crises our_decrepit_institutions national_surveillance_state wikileaks networked_life sterling.bruce nsa jeremiad</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;aid=8864475&amp;fulltextType=RA&amp;fileId=S1537592712003593">
    <title>The Political Economy of Global Finance: A Network Model</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-26T21:02:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;aid=8864475&amp;fulltextType=RA&amp;fileId=S1537592712003593</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Although the subprime crisis regenerated interest in and stimulated debate about how to study the politics of global finance, it has not sparked the development of new approaches to International Political Economy (IPE), which remains firmly rooted in actor-centered models. We develop an alternative network-based approach that shifts the analytical focus to the relations between actors. We first depict the contemporary global financial system as a network, with a particular focus on its hierarchical structure. We then explore key characteristics of this global financial network, including how the hierarchic network structure shapes the dynamics of financial contagion and the source and persistence of power. Throughout, we strive to relate existing research to our network approach in order to highlight exactly where this approach accommodates, where it extends, and where it challenges existing knowledge generated by actor-centered models. We conclude by suggesting that a network approach enables us to construct a systemic IPE that is theoretically and empirically pluralist."]]></description>
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    <title>MacLeish, K.: Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community.</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-06T17:19:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9963.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Making War at Fort Hood offers an illuminating look at war through the daily lives of the people whose job it is to produce it. Kenneth MacLeish conducted a year of intensive fieldwork among soldiers and their families at and around the US Army's Fort Hood in central Texas. He shows how war's reach extends far beyond the battlefield into military communities where violence is as routine, boring, and normal as it is shocking and traumatic.
"Fort Hood is one of the largest military installations in the world, and many of the 55,000 personnel based there have served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. MacLeish provides intimate portraits of Fort Hood's soldiers and those closest to them, drawing on numerous in-depth interviews and diverse ethnographic material. He explores the exceptional position that soldiers occupy in relation to violence--not only trained to fight and kill, but placed deliberately in harm's way and offered up to die. The death and destruction of war happen to soldiers on purpose. MacLeish interweaves gripping narrative with critical theory and anthropological analysis to vividly describe this unique condition of vulnerability. Along the way, he sheds new light on the dynamics of military family life, stereotypes of veterans, what it means for civilians to say "thank you" to soldiers, and other questions about the sometimes ordinary, sometimes agonizing labor of making war.
"Making War at Fort Hood is the first ethnography to examine the everyday lives of the soldiers, families, and communities who personally bear the burden of America's most recent wars."]]></description>
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    <title>SPONSORED: The Taliban Is A Vibrant And Thriving Political Movement</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-16T01:13:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theonion.com/articles/sponsored-the-taliban-is-a-vibrant-and-thriving-po,30910/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>vicious_parody the_continuing_crises why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/01/a-question-for-harold-hongju-koh-on-changes-over-the-last-nine-centuries-in-the-law-of-outlawry.html">
    <title>Brad DeLong : A Question for Harold Hongju Koh on Changes Over the Last Nine Centuries in the Law of Outlawry...</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-04T22:19:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/01/a-question-for-harold-hongju-koh-on-changes-over-the-last-nine-centuries-in-the-law-of-outlawry.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Today, by contrast, in order to be outlawed—and thus in order to have your death commanded not just by blade or bow or gun but by teleoperated robot drone—there needs to be no public process by which you are commanded and offered the opportunity under the king’s peace to surrender and publicly defend yourself at five different successive county sessions. Instead, all that has to happen is that the high functionaries of the President, men and women not bound to others by feudal ties of mutual obligation or republican ties of election and representation but simply chosen at the President’s pleasure to sit on the National Security Council, in secret proceeding without judicial or other scrutiny, put your name on a list. And if you are a minor? Then a high functionary of the President will say, with a straight face, that you “should have chosen a better father” than one who was himself outlawed.
"This is not a good trend in the rule of law as applied to outlawry that we have seen since the thirteenth century, is it?
"What steps have you taken while in government to reverse this trend, and return the law of outlawry to something that would not have caused the justiciars of Henry III to raise their eyebrows and suggest that we remember what the common law is?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>the_continuing_crises our_national_shame national_surveillance_state</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/01/quote-day-american-law-allows-government-engage-unconstitutional-behavior-without">
    <title>Quote of the Day: American Law Allows the Government to Engage in Unconstitutional Behavior Without Explaining Why | Mother Jones</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-03T07:28:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/01/quote-day-american-law-allows-government-engage-unconstitutional-behavior-without</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["From federal judge Colleen McMahon, after acknowledging that disclosure of the government's legal justification for targeting American citizens for assassination might help the public "understand the scope of the ill-defined yet vast and seemingly ever-growing exercise in which we have been engaged for well over a decade, at great cost in lives, treasure, and (at least in the minds of some) personal liberty":
"'However, this Court is constrained by law, and under the law, I can only conclude that the Government [...] cannot be compelled by this court of law to explain in detail the reasons why its actions do not violate the Constitution and laws of the United States. The Alice-in-Wonderland nature of this pronouncement is not lost on me; but after careful and extensive consideration, I find myself stuck in a paradoxical situation in which I cannot solve a problem because of contradictory constraints and rules — a veritable Catch-22. I can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the Executive Branch of our Government to proclaim as perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution and laws, while keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret. But under the law as I understand it to have developed, the Government's motion for summary judgment must be granted, and the cross-motions by the ACLU and the Times denied.'"]]></description>
<dc:subject>the_continuing_crises national_surveillance_state our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444375104577593543203853710.html">
    <title>Book Review: Liars and Outliers | Against Security | Permanent Emergency - WSJ.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-09T15:25:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444375104577593543203853710.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Found from Jordan's self-advertising blog post, which included this intriguing bit:

"With limited space to cover all three books, I ended up not really talking about any of the mathematical content.  There was some!  I didn’t get to mention, for instance, that Schneier uses the prisoner’s dilemma as a central organizing principle of his account of trust.  Or that Hawley, the former director of the TSA, asserts that he was strongly influenced by complexity theory, chaos theory, and network theory in his approach to transportation security.  I certainly would have written about that last part if Hawley had given a clearer account of what he meant by this intriguing claim.  But what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence."]]></description>
<dc:subject>book_reviews stupid_security the_continuing_crises bureaucracy institutions security terrorism_fears sociology ellenberg.jordan schneier.bruce</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.tnr.com/print/article/magazine/105657/sen-europe-democracy-keynes-social-justice">
    <title>What Happened to Europe?</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-28T16:18:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tnr.com/print/article/magazine/105657/sen-europe-democracy-keynes-social-justice</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>europe economic_policy democracy sen.amartya the_continuing_crises financial_crisis_of_2007--</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1e24655a3601/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/08/24/our-mamluks/">
    <title>Our Mamluks | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-24T16:52:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/08/24/our-mamluks/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Historians with a long view might recognize the evolving contours of this situation. It rarely turns out well when a society with imperial commitments makes heavy use of an increasingly professionalized, socially detached military with a warrior ethos and a high degree of skill who feel that their suffering is unappreciated and unrewarded. It is for that reason alone that I sometimes wonder if the most progressive answer to our current wars would be to revive the draft, with absolutely zero exemptions from service."]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_military the_continuing_crises burke.timothy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.pnas.org/content/109/31/12414.abstract">
    <title>Point process modelling of the Afghan War Diary</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-01T19:10:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pnas.org/content/109/31/12414.abstract</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Modern conflicts are characterized by an ever increasing use of information and sensing technology, resulting in vast amounts of high resolution data. Modelling and prediction of conflict, however, remain challenging tasks due to the heterogeneous and dynamic nature of the data typically available. Here we propose the use of dynamic spatiotemporal modelling tools for the identification of complex underlying processes in conflict, such as diffusion, relocation, heterogeneous escalation, and volatility. Using ideas from statistics, signal processing, and ecology, we provide a predictive framework able to assimilate data and give confidence estimates on the predictions. We demonstrate our methods on the WikiLeaks Afghan War Diary. Our results show that the approach allows deeper insights into conflict dynamics and allows a strikingly statistically accurate forward prediction of armed opposition group activity in 2010, based solely on data from previous years."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to_read afghanistan point_processes statistics spatial_statistics the_continuing_crises to_teach:undergrad-ADA in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31754">
    <title>Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands - Shahzad Bashir, Robert D. Crews | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-07T21:00:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31754</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed by military and political concerns, resulting in a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and to analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives. Understanding the complexity of life along the 1,600-mile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan can help America and its European allies realign their priorities in the region to address genuine problems, rather than fabricated ones.

This volume explodes Western misunderstandings by revealing a land that abounds with human agency, perpetual innovation, and vibrant complexity. Through the work of historians and social scientists, the thirteen essays here explore the real and imagined presence of the Taliban; the animated sociopolitical identities expressed through traditions like Pakistani truck decoration; Sufism’s ambivalent position as an alternative to militancy; the long and contradictory history of Afghan media; the simultaneous brutality and potential that heroin brings to women in the area.

Moving past shifting conceptions of security, the authors expose the West’s prevailing perspective on the region as strategic, targeted, and alarmingly dehumanizing. Under the Drones is an essential antidote to contemporary media coverage and military concerns.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/opinion/bombs-bridges-and-jobs.html">
    <title>Bombs, Bridges and Jobs - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-31T11:52:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/opinion/bombs-bridges-and-jobs.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Is this the first time Kalecki got mentioned on the Times editorial page?]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics military_industrial_complex the_continuing_crises krugman.paul economic_policy</dc:subject>
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