Month: June 2025

The World Economy Is on the Brink of Epochal Change Capitalism’s operating system is due for a major upgrade.

The World Economy Is on the Brink of Epochal Change
Capitalism’s operating system is due for a major upgrade. How that turns out depends on enormously consequential political choices.
By Mark Blyth

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/06/reboot-capitalism-operating-system/683308/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYUWEgAgkQRBNk64WM0gZysY 

****** American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran

Bombing Iran is a terrible idea. It’s unlikely to work—and nothing could be more perilous to American democracy than going to war under Donald Trump, Robert Kagan writes.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/democracy-iran-israel-war-trump/683269/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYQi6B7KodEFzRsx1cUeXiKo&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

NYTimes: This Idea Explains a Lot About What Has Happened in Trump 2.0

This Idea Explains a Lot About What Has Happened

The idea’s intellectual history begins with the political philosopher James Burnham, who argued in his seminal 1941 book, “The Managerial Revolution,” that the aristocratic capitalist class was in the process of being overthrown by a revolution — just not, as the Marxists predicted, by the working class.
 Revolution,” that the aristocratic capitalist class was in the process of being overthrown by a revolution — just not, as the Marxists predicted, by the working class. in Trump 2.0