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If There Is No Welfare State, What Will Europe’s Social Contract Be?

The welfare state is the underlying social contract that has kept Western European nation-states together since World War II. If it ends, as some politicians warn, what would replace it?

This entry was posted in Coffee Break, Europe, Moral hazard, Social policy, Social values on September 11, 2025 by Curro Jimenez.

Today’s Political Nihilism: NYC Mayor’s Race as a Case Study

How top Democrats’ posture towards NYC mayoral race leader Zohran Mamdani exemplifies the party’s nihilism.

This entry was posted in Guest Post, Politics, Social values on September 11, 2025 by Yves Smith.

Liberalism as a Way of Life in the Twenty-first Century?

We have previously discussed what the Ancients can teach us. As it turns out, they can teach us much. But things get more dire by the day. Anyone and everyone can make a list of our pathologies. A week of reading the news shows us that as a polity, society, and culture we are in […]

This entry was posted in Politics, Social policy, Social values, The dismal science on September 10, 2025 by KLG.

Trump Followers Promote Authoritarian, Hostile-to-Downtrodden Version of Christianity

How Christianity is being manipulated by Trump allies to demonize the poors and support aggressive law enforcement

This entry was posted in Guest Post, Income disparity, Media watch, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class on September 10, 2025 by Yves Smith.

Is Europe Preparing for War Against Russia or Against Own Populations?

Population control toys aren’t all that useful on the Eurasian Steppe.

Financial Times Study, Finding Blacks Twice as Likely as Whites to Have Mortgage Applications Rejected, Reignites Debate Over Discrimination

A Financial Times study stirs the pot with a new analysis: blacks and other out groups still face considerable discrmination in lending

Trump Floats Idea of Declaring Housing Emergency: Another Self-Sabotage Operation?

Quelle surprise! The Scott Bessent announcement of a possible Trump housing emergency made it sound like a stunt, not a plan.

Social Murder as a Necropolitical Governance Technology

What is social murder, why is it increasing, and how to fight it.

Farcical Visions of Competitiveness in the EU

What will stop these maniacs first? A popular revolt putting them in padded cells or Russian strikes?

Nearly 1,000 ‘Workers Over Billionaires’ Protests Planned Across US for Labor Day

Are protests alone enough to confront the billionaires?

Dead States, Living Borders: Three Historical Cases of ‘State Revival’: Armenia, Vietnam, and Poland

Case studies of Armenia, Vietnam and Poland as countries that re-emerged after conquest. What set them apart?

This entry was posted in Guest Post, Politics, Social policy, Social values on August 30, 2025 by Yves Smith.

Coffee Break: CDC and Acceleration of the Doom Loop

Part the First and Only on this Friday Afternoon: One More Revolution of the Accelerating Doom Loop of Science. The following is an update to our previous discussion earlier this week. As everyone should know by now, the Secretary of Health and Human Services has fired the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. […]

This entry was posted in Coffee Break, Garrulous insolence, Health care, Pandemic, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values on August 29, 2025 by KLG.

Is American Science Stuck in a Doom Loop?

The American scientific community is in a difficult place. I started my first job in an academic research laboratory (funded by the Energy Research and Development Administration and the National Science Foundation) in 1975, which somehow was fifty years ago when I was the youngest person in the laboratory instead of the oldest. I have […]

This entry was posted in Doomsday scenarios, Health care, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values on August 27, 2025 by KLG.