Earlier this evening, I recently finished a few amazing playthroughs of Yugoslavia in Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall, an outstanding geopolitical strategy game developed by the Russian indie gaming cooperative Kremlingames. In the “Disorder in Yugoslavia” DLC, the player gets to… Read More ›
The US Pension System was as much a product of American Federalism as it was a product of wartime conditions. This is significant as European-style Pension Systems were the byproduct of Social-Democrats who successfully agitated for such measures, as was… Read More ›
My next upcoming Blog posts include the second half of “Work-Standard Critiques of Pensions,” where I will be discussing the fundamental problems of American Pensions, and another post that also has to do with the Work-Standard. The other post in… Read More ›
Anyone who reads The Fourth Estate will know that I tend to republish comments responding to monthly posts on the ARPLAN Blog. While my Blog is more focused on post-1945 discussions of Political Science and the fields which intersect with… Read More ›
Having finished the first half of “Work-Standard Critiques of Pensions (Pt. I of II),” I was astonished that this post took longer than expected. At first, I thought it was going to take me about an hour or two, not… Read More ›
In The Work-Standard (2nd Ed.), the concept of the SSE (Socialist Student Economy) provides clearer definitions on how the Student–the “Self”–defines their own future. The Entry entitled “The State’s Educational Policies and Ranking System” identified four specific areas where they… Read More ›
Keeping with the idea of having each week be dedicated to a particular theme in mind, I am currently thinking about whether I should devote this week to a specific theme in mind or two. Both will no doubt be… Read More ›
In Part I of “Post-Cold War Legal Ambiguities,” I sought to put forward the argument that the ongoing conflict in Ukraine should be reinterpreted with a broader historical perspective in mind. One aspect concerns the implication that Russia is seeking… Read More ›
Earlier this morning, just as I was beginning to work on the next half of “Post-Cold War Legal Ambiguities,” the mainstream news has reported that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated. Of all the places in the world… Read More ›
Most of the grand narratives surrounding the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict are all questions pertaining to the national sovereignty of the Ukraine. The official position of Post-Soviet Russia is that Ukraine is allegedly run by Ukrainian ultranationalists who at one point… Read More ›
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