I commend to you this brilliant essay from the Hannah Arendt Center: The Significance of Overt Racism. It discusses how the Nazis used antisemitism to undermine the rule of law, and how Trump's expressed antipathy towards Muslims and Latinxs fits right into that pattern: [...] Arendt discloses for us how we might go about apprehending the ( Read more... )

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This post, Everything Is Broken, by Quinn Norton, is excellent. Much of it I know, but there were some astute, surprising, and in retrospect obvious observations. E.g.: Then there’s the Intelligence Community, who call themselves the IC. We might like it if they stopped spying on everyone all the time, while they would like us to stop whining ( Read more... )

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