The Ongoing Criminalization of Homelessness
States and localities across the US continue to pass laws criminalizing “public camping” and other draconian crackdowns on the increasing number of homeless people in the country.
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Satyajit Das: A Disordered World – Part 2: Susceptibilities
Satyajit Das continues his tour of the breakup of the world order, here focusing on financial/economic dislocations and dysfunctional elites
Read more...The Oil Industry’s Message to You
Big oil has some mighty pretty commercials.
Read more...Sunak Has Been Set Up To Fail and the Likelihood Is That He Will
Rishi Sunak has a Mission Impossible even before getting to his bad impulses. Most countries in the West face the same long list of problems
Read more...Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class – An Essay-Review in Memory of Barbara Ehrenreich, 1941-2022
A takedown of the pretenses of the professional managerial class.
Read more...Texas Revamps ‘Active-Shooter’ Drills at K-12 Schools to Minimize Trauma
Many students say that the way Texas schools are currently conducting drills has a lasting impact.
Read more...“Let Me See Your Smile” as Ugly Power Trip and Classification Struggle
I cannot recall such a combination of hoity-toity disparagement and society-wide officiousness in my lifetime
Read more...‘Good Vibes Only’: Why Toxic Positivity Is Slowly Killing Us
Humans are meant to feel and embrace a full range of emotions.
Read more...Ancestral Livelihoods and Moral Universalism: Evidence from Transhumant Pastoralist Societies
Historical transhumant pastoralism is strongly predictive of greater present-day in-group relative to out-group trust.
Read more...Human Prehistory—Why New Discoveries About Human Origins Open Up Revolutionary Possibilities
How the proto-technology of toolmaking during human prehistory may have influenced brain development and social structures.
Read more...‘Checkout Charity’ Can Increase a Shopper’s Anxiety, Especially When Asks Are Automated
Quelle surprise! A small survey suggests that a significant majority of shoppers do not like being asked to give to a charity at checkout.
Read more...A Pennsylvania Prison Gets a Scandinavian-Style Makeover – and Shows How the US Penal System Could Become More Humane
Better prision approaches can reduce stress and improve outcomes for inmates and staff. But that’s not the point, is it?
Read more...‘Great Resignation’? ‘Quiet Quitting’? If You’re Surprised by America’s Anti-Work Movement, Maybe You Need to Watch More Movies
Movies show that some Americans have not been on board with the cult of work.
Read more...Reflections on Graeber and Wengrow’s ‘Dawn of Everything’
David Graeber and David Wengrow spent ten years studying and thinking about human prehistory.
Read more...KLG: What if Medicine Were Taught Like a Science?
An unsparing look at some glaring deficiencies in reserach and training in medicine.
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