PinnedGreg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.SKULL-THUGGERY DELUXE: Trump as Violence Personified“Violence is an expression of impotence… Power [defined as the capacity to work in concert for a public purpose] and violence are…Jun 1022Jun 1022
PinnedGreg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.AUTOMACENE RISING: The Perilous Political Economy of Artificial IntelligencePeople worry that computers will get too smart and will take over the world. But the real problem is that they are too stupid and they’ve…Oct 18, 202015Oct 18, 202015
PinnedGreg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.A ECONOMY BUILT ON SAND: Silicon Valley is a Mixed Blessing at BestI am worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end. ____ David BodanisNov 9, 20205Nov 9, 20205
PinnedGreg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.THE LANDLORD’S GAME: The Grand Dispossession of AmericaHow can a man be said to have a country when he has not a right to a square inch of it. ___ Henry GeorgeAug 24, 20204Aug 24, 20204
PinnedGreg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.SLOUCHING TOWARD UNTOPIAThe main way we are fooled is by being convinced that there is some perfect society that awaits us if we follow all the rules — a utopia…Feb 23, 202320Feb 23, 202320
Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.BATTLING THE TRUMP CARD: Socioeconomic Insecurity and NeofeudalismBeyond the threat of insurrection, Trump has another ace in the hole, the fire of anxieties he can continue to stoke.2d ago142d ago14
Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.HILLBILLY HELLEGY: J.D. Vance and the Discombobulation of the American Political MythologyThe choice of Trump’s running mate proves the old GOP is gone, replaced by a new and more perverse American mythology.Jul 1728Jul 1728
Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.LEAVING NO TURN UNSTONED: Project 2025 and the Great Recentering“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” Kevin D. RobertsJul 1416Jul 1416
Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.DEMOCRACY REDUX: Reflections for the Fourth of July“In a democracy the highest office is citizen.” — -Felix FrankfurterJul 220Jul 220
Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.TRUMP VERSUS SCIENCE: Putting the Authority in Authoritarianism“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such…Jun 2320Jun 2320