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• Ask the Wonks: What would happen if the blue states seceded?

  
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  Last week, we asked you to submit any burning questions you had for us. This week, we try to answer. Topics include the economics of blue-state secession, the recent apparent slowdown in global warming, boxers vs. briefs, a counterfactual history of Henry A. Wallace, and which Avengers character each of us would be. ...
  1 week ago

• Ask the wonks: On asteroid mining, concealed-carry laws, and Lawrence Lessig

  
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  Last week, we asked you to submit any burning questions you had for us. This week, we try to answer. Topics include Lawrence Lessig, asteroid mining, the future religious make-up of the United States, and the effects of concealed-carry laws. Feel free to submit more questions in comments — we’ll try to ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Layers and The Texture

  
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  This is the cover art for this week’s prog of 2000AD , by the wonderful D’Israeli: Look at the linework! The texture! The composition! And then, look at how the cover went from editorial brief to completion in this detailed blog post (with video) from the always-worth-reading 2000AD Covers Uncovered blog. ...
  3 weeks ago

• There’s a reason TIE is so focused

  
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  There’s a really interesting post up by Peter Frase entitled, “The Perils of Wonkery”. He argues that we are relying, perhaps, too much on policy wonks. This comes, of course, from the news about Reinhart and Rogoff’s “errors”. Frase writes : As we now know, that graph was based on erroneous data ...
  4 weeks ago

• Wednesday, Oh, Wednesday

  
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  * There’s nothing inherently fascist in  Žižek’s call for an elite cadre of benevolent dictators to rule us like kings. Why, it says so right there in black and white: There is absolutely nothing inherently ”Fascist” in these lines – the supreme paradox of the political dynamics is that a Master is ...
  4 weeks ago

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