I’ve written a piece for Cracks in Postmodernity about the decline of the academy. It’s focused around the problem of bad lecturing. More fundamentally, it’s about the inability of the university system to legitimate itself to young people. There’s no paywall. You can read it here:
https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/professors-stop-blaming-your-students
I have a new piece out for Sublation on the state of democracy in the United States. There’s no paywall. You can read it here: https://www.sublationmag.com/post/how-democracies-cry-the-endless-wailing-of-levitsky-and-ziblatt
I’ve written the fourth in a series of six posts that will be coming out with the Streit Council, on the problem of economic integration without political union. There’s no paywall. You can read it here: https://www.streitcouncil.org/post/why-federalism-on-citizenship
I’ve written the third in a series of six posts that will be coming out with the Streit Council, on the problem of economic integration without political union. There’s no paywall. You can read it here: https://www.streitcouncil.org/post/why-federalism-the-unit-question
President Trump has announced new tariffs:
These tariffs are much larger than the tariffs Trump imposed during his first term. Those tariffs were targeted – they affected specific industries Trump was hoping to reshore. This is a broad-spectrum approach. It’s a strategy you use to force another state to make concessions in other policy areas. What is Trump trying to do? And will he succeed?
Benjamin Studebaker 