As Varoufakis but importantly Perry Anderson before him have long held, the EU is a commercial union that achieves political integration on an ad-hoc and opportunistic basis. The US was a political union first and economic second. So was Britain. So was Switzerland. I tend to agree.

war with Iran lasted twelve days partly because all those missiles Iran fired back were depleting the magazines for the air defence systems Israel deployed. Indeed the Iranians lost much of their capabilities in their initial surprise attack but you do have to disable those defences before attack

Had an exchange with Michael Pettis where he suggested that the Tesla stock price is effectively an oppo for option trading. An easy stock that can be a conduit for trading on volatility. Really explained a lot

I have been learning so much from your work and this framework you’ve described is fantastic. Would it be right to extend this framework to a company like Tesla whose share price has varied from 200 to 500 dollars a share within a year?

You’re telling me, I just got stood up on a date and it’s like the divine will conspired for you to share this on my feed

Why do men need an exclusive vision of virtue? Why don’t they want a universal, ungendered ideal of a good life? Why won’t they share in that striving with us?