The power and promise of imagining alternate realities: Remembering a pre-enshittified internet; revealing a less awful form of capitalism; and, considering a different type of Zionism. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: CSA: The Confederate States of America (YouTube) Jeff Tiedrich: Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion (Substack) Daily Links from Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic.net) Good Thing/Bad Thing Graph (Google) Measuring the Income Gap from 1975 to 2023 (Rand) Ahad Ha'am: Nationalist with a Difference

If playing to the center has brought us to this, shouldn't moderate Democrats more accurately be called Extreme Centrists? Mentioned in this episode: Lennar Lobbies for Endless Profits -- Substack Lennar Launches e-Marketplace -- The Lever

Our views and experiences impact how we see the world. One man's take on a 19th-century anti-monopoly law changed the world entirely. Mentioned This Week: Tony Conrad's "The Flicker" [ YouTube ] "Google Is Now the East India Company [ The Honest Broker ] "Beware of the Google AI Salesman" [ HouseFresh ] "The Antitrust Paradox" [ Wikipedia ] "The Profound Nonsense of Consumer Welfare Antitrust [ The Antitrust Bulletin ]

This episode explores how we so often believe in something -- from who is the NBA GOAT, to the legitimacy of one's economic status -- and then work backward to figure out why it's true. Mentioned this week: CNBC: Banks Keep Credit Card Rates High Doctorow: The Meritocracy to Eugenics Pipeline Forbes: Under-30 List Psychology Today: Your Brain on Power NYT: The Techno-Futurist Philosophy Behind Musk's Mania