Starting late next month, I will be scaling back the number of posts I contribute to the Blog. Back in May, I mentioned in another Update post that I would be posting five times each week. Now, I am convinced… Read More ›
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Update (13 July 2022)
I still have yet to determine what else I am going to post next later this week, and even then, I am not yet finished writing an upcoming Blog post. The next post I would like to work on is… Read More ›
Reflections on Yugoslav-Italian Diplomacy in “Ostalgie”
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 ›
Work-Standard Critiques of Pensions (Pt. II of II)
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 ›
“‘Council State’ or ‘Corporate State?'”
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 ›
Update (11 July 2022)
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 ›
Work-Standard Critiques of Pensions (Pt. I of II)
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 ›
Update (10 July 2022)
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 ›
Post-Cold War Legal Ambiguities (Pt. II of II)
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 ›
Update (8 July 2022)
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 ›
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