"The story of the Cypherpunks Mailing List, an obscure ‘90s email server that developed decentralized technology as a path to new forms of human organization."

"Friedrich Engels once wrote that he played “second fiddle” to Marx. On the 200th anniversary of his birth, we should remember the profound influence that Engels had on his friend and comrade, as well as his own theoretical contributions."

"we should aim for rough consensus and running worlds." _...Read More_

>"Socrates or Plato may not have used Twitter or TikTok, but as Nathan Dufour writes, they would have had things to say about how to navigate social media more wisely."

>"From exhuming Francisco Franco to funding efforts to identify his victims, Spain’s incumbent left-wing government has sought a reckoning with _...Read More_

"For the political economist Albert O Hirschman, democracy thrives not on strong opinions but on doubt and flexibility"

"Is there something special about the way women do philosophy or is that just another essentialist idea holding us back?"

"The movement’s architects saw the inadequacy of liberal solutions to racial injustice. Yet the term has become a lullaby by which liberals self-soothe."

There’s a tension worth digging at here between the individual and the system that I think Katz has a tough time clearing up, but overall worthwhile read. Like, to say that the historical suppression/cultural repression we see in the US is _...Read More_

"Maruki Iri and Maruki Toshi were witness to the direct aftermath of the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. The art they created is striking."

Elite merchants put up a statue of a British slave trader. A band of protesters toppled it. Who decides what happens now?