Christopher Rufo’s Shockingly Open Appeal: I’ll Fund Right-Wing “Culture War” Projects

A conservative activist has unveiled a fellowship that aims to help “conservative journalists, activists, and opinion leaders” foment a culture war. Christopher Rufo, an ally of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, has become a leading figure in conservative education policy. He Continue reading Christopher Rufo’s Shockingly Open Appeal: I’ll Fund Right-Wing “Culture War” Projects

The Ludicrous, Depressing Appeal of the Crypto Guy

In his monumental history Debt: The First 5,000 Years, the anthropologist David Graeber accused economists of inventing “imaginary villages” as the settings for their just-so stories about the ancient origins of financial exchange. Five thousand years later, it is hard Continue reading The Ludicrous, Depressing Appeal of the Crypto Guy