If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Next week, Dec 3 at 6:00pm EST, see @avramalpert.bsky.social, author of The Good-Enough Life, at @backmarketofficial.bsky.social for a book talk and open discussion. The first 30 attendees will be gifted a copy of the book! Don't miss this amazing free event. Reserve your space: buff.ly/iivxtYD

Rhetorically, do the opposite: “Unpack the court”. It’s been packed by barely legal manoeuvres. Set it right, either by forced retirement or expansion and in either case new principles going forward

“To imagine yourself as a modern-day Seneca, a sage liberated from the cares afflicting more ordinary souls, is its own form of self-indulgence,” @erikmbaker.bsky.social argues in his Issue Sixteen essay on self-help philosophy. www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...

NJHN is hosting a talk "What Could a Good-Enough Future Look Like?" by @avramalpert.bsky.social on 10/26 at 1:30pm at the Monroe Twp Public Library and via Zoom. Details at njhn.org/avramalpert2....

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Our spring issue, Border Politics, is out today! www.dissentmagazine.org/issue/spring...

ICYMI - The recording is now up of "A Politics of Belonging" -- watch or listen to @avramalpert talking with Alexis Papazoglou on a conception of belonging that enables people to feel comfortable enough to be different. #Philosophy #PhilSky #belonging www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rrp...