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 Diff

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 -- SubstackLennar 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 HighDoctorow: The Meritocracy to Eugenics PipelineForbes: Under-30 ListPsychology Today: Your Brain on PowerNYT: The Techno-Futurist Philosophy Behind Musk's Mania