Link – Page 47 – Rock Salted

Meyers wrote some confounding things, but he also performed a valuable service by looking critically at things like methods of wealth accumulation, which have tended toward fraud and insider dealing (for instance, the History of the Great American Fortunes “gives the details of [the Yazoo land scandal] and other frauds that have shaped American history. The moral is that great gifts to insiders have effects that will last centuries.”)

Tom Service – A Guide to Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Music

Link to an article by Tom Service:

“A Guide to Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Music”

Yarden Katz – Cheerleading With an Agenda

Link to an article by Yarden Katz:

“Cheerleading With an Agenda: How the Press Covers Science”

Bonus links: Stanisław Lem, Solaris and “Economics as Ideology: Challenging Expert Political Power” and Thorstein Veblen, The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men and Universities and the Capitalist State

Reviews of Anwar Shaikh’s “Capitalism”

Links to reviews of reviews of Anwar Shaikh‘s Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises (2016):

Bernard Guerrien: “A New ‘General Theory’? A review of Capitalism by Anwar Shaikh”
Heikki Patomäki: “Anwar Shaikh’s Capitalism: A new foundation for economic theory?”
Michael Roberts: “Real capitalism: turbulent and antagonistic, but not imperfect”
Brian Romanchuk: “Should We Care About The History Of Money?” and “Capitalism by Anwar Shaikh” (the first link here perhaps suggests that Shaikh argues against MMT because it is closest to his own theories?)
Bill Jefferies: “Review”
Sam Williams: “Three Books on Marxist Political Economy” & “Part 2”
Gavin Mendel-Gleason: “Review of Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises by Anwar Shaikh”

Bonus links: Video lectures by Shaikh and “Innocuous Proclaimations” (this short interview probably renders reading Shaikh’s book unnecessary)

Links to Articles on Liberal Reaction to Trump’s Election

A collection of links to articles critiquing the liberal reaction to the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, and the related hacking allegations:

Rune Møller Stahl & Bue Rübner Hansen: “The Fallacy of Post-Truth”
Andrew Cockburn: “Questions for the Electors on Russian Hacking”
Stephen Cohen: “What’s Next for U.S.-Russia Relations? Stephen Cohen & Ken Roth on Trump, Hacking & Tillerson”
Jeffrey Sommers: “Curious Alliances: Truth as Casualty in the US Presidential Election” (“In the end, expect the question of Russia’s possible involvement in the US presidential election to be almost entirely agenda driven. Most will have drawn their conclusions before any evidence is produced.”)
Mike Whitney: “The Corporate Media’s Assault on Free Speech: an Interview with Jeffrey St. Clair” and “Ah, So Putin Didn’t Hack Those Emails After All”
Ishaan Tharoor: “The Long History of the U.S. Interfering with Elections Elsewhere”; see also Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: History of the CIA”, David Talbot, The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
Nick Pemberton: “Ironic Escapism”

Jean-Paul Sartre – Elections: A Trap for Fools

Link to a translation of Jean-Paul Sartre‘s 1973 essay:

“Elections: A Trap for Fools”