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What the machines are doing to the human person.
What can Highland Aluminum Works tell us about the factory's age? They laid them to rest where they fell, on a knoll above the water, marking each grave with concrete—the only material the land offered in abundance. Twenty-two graves stand there. Most stones bear only the word "Unknown." Three are named: Darkey Cunningham, John McFadden,... Continue Reading →
As the US prepares to celebrate Labor Day, remember the holiday's true meaning. The man at the head of the column carried an American flag. He was Slovak. He worked underground for a company that owned his house, employed his doctor, and ran the store where he bought his flour. On the morning of Friday,... Continue Reading →
What a disregarded inventor, a debate season, and Gil Durán’s The Nerd Reich teach us about building guardrails for the autonomous revolution. In 1903, a stenographer in Washington, DC, filed a patent for a board game she had been testing on the porches of a single-tax colony in Arden, Delaware. Her name was Elizabeth Magie. She was... Continue Reading →
What a forgotten massacre in 1525 can tell us about inequality, violence, and the machines we are building now. On the morning of 15 May 1525, several thousand German peasants assembled on a hillside near Frankenhausen. Their grievances were many, and, astonishingly for people of their station, they had put them into print. Two months... Continue Reading →
Gruen, Merton, and a Third Way Between Socialism and Capitalism Using See-Judge-Act An October Morning in Edina On 8 October 1956, crowds flocked to a Minneapolis suburb to witness a marvel: Southdale Center, the first fully enclosed, climate-controlled shopping mall. Step inside, and it was always a perfect seventy-two degrees, unaffected by the wildest Minnesota... Continue Reading →
How a Belgian priest’s scribbled method dodged a firing squad and grew into an €11 billion (12,609B USD) Basque powerhouse The paperwork that didn't arrive In the summer of 1937, in Larrinaga prison in Bilbao, a twenty-two-year-old with one working eye was waiting to be shot. Bilbao had fallen to Franco's forces in June. The... Continue Reading →
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