The Nation: Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market

Social Democrats simply cannot change their spots. First magnanimously declare that you are not selling weapons to a criminal dictatorship, enjoy the accolades, then kick human rights in the teeth. Read here

Rearrangements of the relationship between economic expertise and politics in the Democratic Party in the US, which Tooze puts in context by tracing Paul Krugman’s intellectual trajectory over recent decades. Read here

Oh well, you can be the darling of the art world as long as you are producing a marketable commodity especially useful for speculation. Unfortunately human lives cannot be sold at Sotheby’s. Read here