-Steve Keen Says Economists Get Everything Wrong (Especially About Climate Change) — extremely intriguing conversation. Will have to do some more reading of Keen’s thoughts.
-Simon Schama on America’s history wars, race and the flag — like Goebbels and many other successful autocrats and fascists, today’s Republican Party led by Trump tries to steer “patriotism” by whitewashing history. While in the short term this can be helpful in dumbing down the MAGA crowd, in the long run truth wins out. This is a great piece looking at the issues with the myths that make America.
history is neither in the business of self-congratulation nor self-flagellation. History is in the truth business. And if the truth should be hard to nail down in simplicities, then the least history can do is to disabuse its readers of outright falsehoods.
The organic relationship between history and freedom lies precisely in the willingness of free states to accept a record of their pasts, stained with disaster and wickedness as much as heroism and achievement. Distorting the record so that it becomes an exercise in the genealogy of present glory is to corrupt its integrity. Best leave that to the dictators.
