I wrote a long piece about the new Sylvia Plath books and the fantasies that still swirl around her, for the new @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/you...

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‘The public sphere has become also very commodified because capitalism is developed; bourgeoisie is no longer just an oppositional force, it’s now power.’ @leaypi.bsky.social on what makes political writing, on the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Excellent piece, and ends with a quote from John Kenneth Galbraith: “People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.” Sums up a lot of what @astra.bsky.social have been writing about in ETF... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/o...

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yesterday I spoke at the TS Lombard conference on Capital Markets, and it was shocking how little investors talked about the AI bubble, at least on the stage. everyone is pretending that 40% growth in US tech stocks in the past 6 months is not a mania but God's productivity gift.

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Chapter 1 in my PhD (also my first published paper) was about how policymakers and economists construct macroeconomic governability. Michael Woodford was the key figure in the construction of the new-neoclassical-synthesis version of governability. Success: Mixed. benjaminbraun.org/assets/pubs/...

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