Nader Elhefnawy

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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Is an Artificial Intelligence Bubble About to Burst?

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Hype about artificial intelligence has been cyclical in the past. The pattern typically saw some cause for expectations that the big moment ...

The Privilege of Turning off Your Telescreen

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People love to talk about George Orwell. Far more people than have ever actually bothered to read Orwell, going by a certain poll of a few y...

The Dead Dream of Democratizing the Means of Communication

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While the rhetoric of the Internet as a great democratizer was everywhere in the market populism -dominated 1990s, and remained widespread m...
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Saturday, September 20, 2025

On Germany's Armor Orders

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At this stage of things it is difficult to say very much about the Russo-Ukrainian War now dragging into its fourth year. The plain and simp...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

What's That in Poor Years?

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We live in an exceedingly unequal society which has long shown the trend of its life to be toward more and not less inequality, all as those...

Writing About Neoliberalism: Some Thoughts

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Some years ago certain members of the commentariat began attacking the meaningfulness of the word "neoliberal" as a descriptor of ...

Not Just Thatcher, But Reagan

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Recently reading the details of the German government's euphemistically named "Growth Booster" (read: big giveaway to busines...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Germany's Rearmament Program: August 2025 Update

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Back in 2022 remarking Germany's announced infusion of cash into its armed forces I acknowledged the magnitude of the expenditure, which...

Of Neoliberalism's Contradictions--and the Democratic Party's

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First encountering the Roosevelt Institute report titled "The Cultural Contradictions of Neoliberalism: The Longing for an Alternative ...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Revisiting German Rearmament in 2025

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When in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine I addressed the discussion of German--and Japanese--"rearmament," I argued th...
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