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3 weeks ago | 
braddelong.substack.com | Brad DeLong
One of the many, many issues that I see is supremely important, but where my personal VAR is very limited: how the fact that Apple Computer’s leadership keeps score by current profits and stock price rather than by changing the world for the better greatly limits its utility for humanity considered as an anthology intelligence, may well even limit its long-run profitability, and leads there to be a good chance that its apex is now in the past… I am now up to a list of six different things...
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1 month ago | 
braddelong.substack.com | Brad DeLong
Relaunching! Relaunch starring John Ganz, author of the his truly excellent book When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, & How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s. The conversation touches on the intellectual, political, and economic forces behind the rise of Trump and assays historical analogies to the current period from caeserism to fascism…Yes, we are now live with the relaunch episode of what we are calling the Berkeley Political Economy Podcast.
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1 month ago | 
inflectionpointpodcast.substack.com | Brad DeLong
The March 2025 soft launch of "Inflection Point", the Berkeley Political Economy Podcast, hosted by Dylan J. Riley & J. Bradford DeLong. Here we have the brilliant John Ganz on to discuss his truly excellent book When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, & How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s.
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1 month ago | 
braddelong.substack.com | Brad DeLong
For Project Syndicate: Sanewashing the Trumpists is in general a big mistake, for it carries you much further away from understanding what is actually going on. Today’s fallen victim of self-delusion is, I think, the very sharp Gillian Tett…Gillian Tett, I think unproductively, sanewashes the Trumpists.
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1 month ago | 
braddelong.substack.com | Brad DeLong
It is, of course, something substantially wrong with the way I am teaching this that feminist concerns are only about a tenth—rather than at least a quarter—of this course, & are, to much too great an extent, boxed off in this week. I had planned to rectify this last year. But we are not now what once moved heaven and earth—indeed, we never were. Still, we are what we are, and we at least try to do something…My current slide deck:2025 03 17 Econ 113 S202525.4MB ∙ PDF file
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1 month ago | 
braddelong.substack.com | Brad DeLong
Your memory is a blessing, my friend... I have felt too sad and do not have the heard to write an obituary for my late friend Kevin Drum. But here is a good one from Ben Dreyfuss. Excerpted from Calm Ben Down <https://www.calmdownben.com/>:Ben Dreyfuss: Kevin Drum was forced out of Mother Jones by people who didn't know about a secret thing he did for them: ‘Kevin Drum has passed away…. I did get to know him somewhat…. I got a DM from the editor in chief of Mother Jones….
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1 month ago | 
braddelong.substack.com | Brad DeLong
Below the paywall fold because it is just a draft, and outside my wheelhouse anyway. An irritable gesture provoked by a very sharp person—Steve Vladeck—looking at his feet, rather than at what is really going on around him. Steve Vladeck sees “difficult questions…”. A less naïve observer—a Fred Rodell—would see a Supreme Court with a six-vote lock against taking steps to vindicate the rights of non-citizens to politically dissent.
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1 month ago | 
unpopularfront.news | John Ganz |Brad DeLong
I believe it’s appropriate now to refer to the present government of the United States not as an “administration” but as a “regime,” with all of that word’s dark and ugly connotations. On Saturday, March 8th, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized 30-year-old student activist Mahmoud Khalil from Columbia housing in the night. He was taken in front of his pregnant wife, an American citizen, who was threatened with arrest.
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1 month ago | 
braddelong.substack.com | Brad DeLong
Immigration has always been at the heart of America’s story & self-definition. It has also one of the if not the major source of America’s power & prosperity. But anxiety about welcoming immigrants has also always been a constant. Romulus established an asylum when he founded ancient Rome—a place welcoming fugitives, exiles, criminals, runaway slaves, and other marginalized or displaced individuals from elsewhere & making them full Roman citizens.
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1 month ago | 
braddelong.substack.com | Brad DeLong
I am now officially behind! For the first time this semester, I have to give a lecture on Monday & I did not have a rough draft of it in hand before the semester began! (Fortunately for me, Monday March 10 is the only day in which I am in this pickle until… Monday April 14.
