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The Crowd and Affordability

November 17, 2025

Demos Kratia #12 Taking my own advice: I am re-reading Rudé. How relevant he seems to what we are living through. I once wrote the phrase “words unsullied by thought” in the draft of a play about Antonin Artaud the French surrealist. Actually, he was too surreal even for the surrealists. His madness was that […]

Politics / affordability, capitalism, democracy, oligopoly, plutocracy, Populism /

Affordability in a Fading Gilded Age?

November 12, 2025

Demos Kratia 13: All of a sudden affordability is on every politician’s lips. Somewhat regretfully in many cases. Yet it is not a new issue — it has been brewing for ages. Now it has burst on the scene, and only people branded as “extreme” seem willing to engage with it. That’s one narrative […]

Politics / capitalism, democracy, New York City, oligarchs, plutocracy /

My Humble Take on Yesterday

November 5, 2025

Demos Kratia #11 On December 22, 1757 the latest issue of Gentleman’s Magazine carried this from a irate correspondent: “If the Legislature don’t speedily use some method effectually to suppress the present spirit of rioting, which is become general among the lower sort of people …, there will be no protection from the plundering of […]

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