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This Week In Techdirt History: August 31st – September…
from the back-in-the-day dept Five Years Ago This week in 2020, AT&T was hypocritically calling…
A New History of ‘The Projects’ – Howard A.…
Editor’s Note: This essay is adapted from The Projects: A New History of Public Housing (NYU Press,…
Taking Schmitt Seriously – The Dispatch
Dear Reader (even those of you ponying up big bucks to harness the power of the Dark Side), Missouri…
How (Not) to Save the American University – Bret…
Should science and the humanities in the modern American university get a divorce? That was the…
Elizabeth Anscombe and the Bomb – Luis Parrales
In June 1956, the University of Oxford awarded American President Harry S. Truman a degree—an…
This Week In Techdirt History: August 24th – 30th
from the so-it-was dept Five Years Ago This week in 2020, the Secret Service joined the list of law…
Trump Goes Full Orwellian In Effort To Reshape The…
from the double-plus-ungood dept When people use the term “Orwellian,” it’s not a good sign. It…
There Goes (VROOM VROOM) the American Muscle Car
PONTIAC, Michigan—Traveling a fair amount for work outside of major metros requires relying on…
Feudalism Was Hell for the Poor – Marian L. Tupy
On a recent podcast, Tucker Carlson praised feudalism as “so much better than what we have now”…
La Vie en Commune – Thomas Dichter
In 1919, Edith Wharton, the American writer who spent World War I living in France, published a tidy…
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