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A collection of 72 issues

A Book Review Gone Wild

From the Strategic Deterrence Quarterly Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen Reviewed by Dr. Patricia Kellerman, Senior Fellow, Institute for Strategic Studies Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario offers a viscerally compelling but strategically flawed meditation on nuclear escalation that ultimately undermines the very deterrence frameworks it

The Ritual and the Launch Code

On Nuclear Anxiety as Performance 1. The Stage Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario reads like a Lars von Trier film — expertly crafted inevitability that carries you along in its shockwave while you simultaneously recognize the manipulation. Thirty minutes from first warning to civilizational rubble, told in real-time

Business Schools vs. Socialist Magazines: A Market Analysis of Mutual Irrelevance

In which we discover that both Harvard MBAs and Jacobin writers produce roughly the same amount of value for society By Chad Middlebrow The Hanoverin Senior Correspondent for Institutional Dysfunction Last week, our friends at Jacobin published yet another breathless exposé revealing that—brace yourselves—business schools teach people how

The Boo Radleys and Notes from Inside the Unlocked Door

Or: How a 1992 Song Became a Field Guide to Democratic Exhaustion In 1992, the Gulf War was a video game played out on television, Bill Clinton was on his way to winning back the White House, and the musical world was still scratching its head in the exhaust clouds

Double Rations Tonight! or The AI Millionaire Machine

How to Turn a Million Workers Into Corpse-Starch and Call It Progress "AI will create more millionaires in the next 5 years than the internet did in 20." —Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA "Hey guys! Quartermaster said double rations tonight!" —Imperial Guard trooper, standing on a

How to Hate the Game (As Well as the Players)

A Field Guide to Principled Cynicism in the Age of Performative Democracy Fresh in my inbox this week: Oregon Democrats asking for money to support Texas Democrats who fled the state to break quorum and block Republican redistricting. "The gloves are off," they announced, "and Texas Democrats

Soup Is Good Food (2025 Remaster)

Or: How Dead Kennedys Predicted the LinkedIn Economy In 1985, Jello Biafra and the Dead Kennedys released "Soup Is Good Food," a brutal prophecy about technological displacement and corporate cannibalism. Forty years later, as I scroll through LinkedIn watching professionals optimize themselves into algorithmic nutrients, I realize: the

Cupcakes and Shrapnel

Notes from Your Local Gadfly I’ve been called a naysayer, a killjoy, a purveyor of hot takes with too much vinegar in the batter. Fair enough. In Oregon politics, where public messaging often arrives pre-frosted with solidarity statements and pre-approved hashtags, anything sharp or unsweetened can feel like sabotage.

The Armed Civilian Paradox: A Practice in Orbital Analysis

Notes from the periphery of American gun discourse The Orbit We're Tracking Armed civilians in America exist in a state of permanent paradox—and so does every attempt to discuss them. Rather than stake out another position in this discourse, we're going to orbit the existing

After the Gold Rush: When the Bubble Deflates

Edward Zitron's "The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble" presents a damning indictment of artificial intelligence hype: $560 billion in capital expenditures across major tech companies in 2024-2025, generating a mere $35 billion in revenue. He argues that we're witnessing a house