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2 weeks ago | 
coinlive.com | Dan Davies |Henry Farrell
Author: Dan Davies; Henry J. Farrell; Source: The New York Times; Compiler: BitpushNews YananIt was a fruitful week for US cryptocurrency interest groups. The Genius Act was passed by the Senate, officially legalizing cryptocurrencies such as "stablecoins". More notably, President Trump hosted a private dinner on Thursday for the top 220 investors in the number of $Trump memecoins. However, for the United States as a whole, this was by no means a week worth celebrating.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Dan Davies |Henry Farrell
This has been a good week for America's crypto interests. The Genius Act, which legitimates a kind of cryptocurrency called stablecoins, advanced in the Senate, and on Thursday, President Trump held a gala dinner for the top 220 holders of his $Trump memecoin. That doesn't mean it's been a good week for America. Stablecoins, as their name suggests, are crypto assets guaranteed by other assets like the U.S. dollar.
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1 month ago | 
programmablemutter.com | Henry Farrell
[image by Brian Eno, from “77 Million Paintings.” Eno says in this dialogue that he doesn’t mind people using these images for non-commercial purposes]This post’s title is a little cheeky. Brian Eno does not have an explicit theory of democracy that I know of, although he is visibly and emphatically committed to its practice. But Eno’s arguments about the arts tell us important things about how democracy ought work, and what kinds of democratic stability and variety we ought aspire to.
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1 month ago | 
indybay.org | Henry Farrell
The free market is an impossible utopia By Henry Farrell Fred Block (research professor of sociology at University of California at Davis) and Margaret Somers (professor of sociology and history at the University of Michigan) have a new book, "The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi's Critique" (Harvard University Press, 2014).
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2 months ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Michelle Gavin |Henry Farrell |Abraham L. Newman |Laura Gamboa
Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality. By getting close to U.S. President Donald Trump, they risk losing access to one of their biggest markets: Europe. Just a decade ago, these companies believed that information technology would limit the power of governments and liberalize the world.
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2 months ago | 
insidestory.org.au | Henry Farrell
The reactionary right is not a monolith J.D. Vance is attempting to straddle two diametrically different tendencies on the radical right We have a tendency to overestimate how unified our political adversaries are, because of a particular version of what psychologists call the “fundamental attribution error.” When we look at our own side, we all too easily see the incoherence, the petty feuding, bickering and incompetence. When we look at the other, it appears to be possessed by a single...
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2 months ago | 
programmablemutter.com | Henry Farrell
We have a tendency to over-estimate how unified our political adversaries are, because of a particular version of what psychologists call the “fundamental attribution error.” When we look at our own side, we all too easily see the incoherence, the petty feuding, bickering and incompetence. When we look at the other, it appears to be possessed by a single purpose, marching in lockstep to a coherent evil plan.
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2 months ago | 
democracyjournal.org | Henry Farrell
When Elon Musk brought the U.S. government to the brink of shutdown over a spending bill in December, he boasted of a victory for democracy. As Musk described the outcome on X, which he owns: “Your elected representatives have heard you and now the terrible bill is dead. The voice of the people has triumphed. VOX POPULI / VOX DEI.”The voice was not divine, but rather Musk’s own, amplified by a social media platform that he has partly reconstructed around his own prejudices and predilections.
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2 months ago | 
science.org | Lianjie Miao |Nikos Koundouros |Henry Farrell |Alison Gopnik
Information & AuthorsPublished In ScienceVolume 387 | Issue 673914 March 2025Article versionsSubmission historyPublished in print: 14 March 2025PermissionsRequest permissions for this article. AcknowledgmentsAll authors contributed equally to this work. J.E. began a visiting researcher affiliation with Google after this manuscript was submitted.
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Mar 2, 2025 | 
unpopularfront.news | John Ganz |Max Read |Henry Farrell |Brad DeLong
This is a regular feature for paid subscribers wherein I write a little bit about what I’ve been reading and/or watching. I’m going to comment briefly on the disgraceful Trump-Zelensky Oval Office scene, but first…In case you missed it, and I hosted political scientist on our intermittent podcast.—Speaking of podcasts, I’m very excited that next week I’ll be the first guest on Inflection Point, the relaunched Berkeley Political Economy podcast with economist and sociologist Dylan J. Riley.
