Ep53 -- The Paths Not Taken

Ep54 -- Intrinsic Accounting

Finding ways to accentuate the positive, and figuring out what those "Anti-Elon Tesla Club" stickers are really saying.

Ep53 -- The Paths Not Taken

The power and promise of imagining alternate realities: Remembering a pre-enshittified internet; revealing a less awful form of capitalism; and, considering a different type of Zionism.  MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: CSA: The Confederate States of America [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exnwTWfFRM8&t=106s] (YouTube) Jeff Tiedrich: Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion [https://substack.com/@jefftiedrich] (Substack) Daily Links from Cory Doctorow [https://pluralistic.net/] (Pluralistic.net) Good Thing/Bad Thing Graph [https://share.google/images/2APHNHtMLNtHrQrOf] (Google) Measuring the Income Gap from 1975 to 2023 [https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-2.html] (Rand) Ahad Ha'am: Nationalist with a Difference [https://www.commentary.org/articles/hans-kohn/ahad-haam-nationalist-with-a-differencea-zionism-to-fulfill-judaism/] (Commentary) The Long Anti-Zionist History of the American Jewish Left [https://jacobin.com/2025/07/balthaser-anti-zionism-american-jewish-left] (Commentary) Einstein Opposed Zionist Colonization [https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/einstein-opposed-zionist-colonization-in-palestine-and-predicted-the-current-catastrophe] (Canadian Dimension) Hannah Arendt on Political Zionism [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41857837?seq=1] (Arab Studies Quarterly) Ben-Gurion: Letter to His Son [https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2013/04/06/the-ben-gurion-letter/] (Jewish Voices for Peace) A Zionist State at Any Cost [https://jacobin.com/2020/04/david-ben-gurion-state-at-any-cost-review] (Jacobin) The Iron Wall [https://en.jabotinsky.org/media/9747/the-iron-wall.pdf] (Jabotinsky Institute)

Ep52 -- The Extreme Center

If playing to the center has brought us to this, shouldn't moderate Democrats more accurately be called Extreme Centrists? ------------------------------------------- Lennar Lobbies for Endless Profits -- Substack [https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/a-homebuilding-giant-is-lobbying] Lennar Launches e-Marketplace -- The Lever [https://www.levernews.com/the-corporate-home-search-site-making-housing-unaffordable/]

Ep51 -- Believing Is Seeing

Our views and experiences impact how we see the world.  One man's take on a 19th-century anti-monopoly law changed the world entirely. Mentioned This Week: * Tony Conrad's "The Flicker" [YouTube [https://youtu.be/k_7QHnmRNXI?si=GL7C2oDL0Scc5IgM]] * "Google Is Now the East India Company [The Honest Broker [https://www.honest-broker.com/p/google-is-now-the-east-india-company]] * "Beware of the Google AI Salesman" [HouseFresh [https://housefresh.com/beware-of-the-google-ai-salesman/]] * "The Antitrust Paradox" [Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antitrust_Paradox]] * "The Profound Nonsense of Consumer Welfare Antitrust [The Antitrust Bulletin [https://econ.utah.edu/antitrust-conference/session_material/The%20Profound%20Nonsense%20of%20Consumer%20Welfare%20Antitrust.pdf]]

Ep50 -- Excuses, Excuses

This episode explores how we so often believe in something -- from who is the NBA GOAT, to the legitimacy of one's economic status -- and then work backward to figure out why it's true.   Mentioned this week: CNBC: Banks Keep Credit Card Rates High [https://www.aol.com/banks-keeping-credit-card-rates-174740141.html] Doctorow: The Meritocracy to Eugenics Pipeline [https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/20/big-cornflakes-energy/#caliper-pilled] Forbes: Under-30 List [https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/forbes-billionaires-under-30-inherited-203930435.html] Psychology Today: Your Brain on Power [https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/neuroscience-in-everyday-life/202006/the-brain-under-the-influence-power] NYT: The Techno-Futurist Philosophy Behind Musk's Mania [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/elon-musk-longtermism-effective-altruism-doge.html]