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Technology Allows ‘The Many and the Small’ to Defeat ‘The Few and the Large.’
And, of course, it’s not only technology.
 • Jim Freeman
Everyone Wants to “Fight the System.” We Might Best Define It First.
There are bunches of ‘systems,’ just as there are grapevines in a winery.
 • Jim Freeman
Sooner Than Expected? The Planet Is Shaking Our Human-Errors Like Water Off a Wet Dog.
The Planet is not in trouble, folks, and anyone who thinks that has too high an opinion of humanity and our influence.
 • Jim Freeman
Pentagon Presses Defense Firms to Build Weapons, as Iran War Depletes Stocks.
Well, foolish me.
 • Jim Freeman
“Pooled and Shared, Knowledge Is How Societies Get Healthier, Richer and Freer.”
So says Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu, and that’s the fourth leg of the chair that supports the argument he makes in his new book, “What Happened to…
 • Jim Freeman
The Overpowering Temptations and Pitfalls of Military Superiority
What does ‘military superiority’ even mean, when the largest military on the face of the earth can’t win a war?
 • Jim Freeman
After Shooting Itself in the Foot for Fifty Years, the Democratic Party Has One Bullet Left
In a recent headline, the NYTimes announced to its readership that “Moderate Democrats Prepare for ‘War’ Against an Ascendant Left.”
 • Jim Freeman
The Flee-Circus of the Billionaire Class
In an ordinary Flea-Circus (if any actually exist anymore), no one cares much where the fleas live, as their maintenance costs are very close to zero.
 • Jim Freeman
Washington Is Mobilizing to Deal with the Threat of Chinese AI
Even though we know that Washington is at its best (and least dangerous to itself and others) when it fails to mobilize, that is the headline of a…
 • Jim Freeman
What’s All This Nonsense About Putting Solar on Farmland?
Quite rightly, there’s a growing outcry about the increasing use of farmland for solar farms.
 • Jim Freeman
Ben and Jerry’s Merger with Unilever Proves ‘You Can’t Trust a Camel to Win in Court’’
Who doesn’t love Ben and Jerry’s ice cream?
 • Jim Freeman

July 2026

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