
Zachary D. Carter
@zachdcarter
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Columnist @Slate Global Order + Institutions @CarnegieEndow The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy and the Life of John Maynard Keynes: https://t.co/CTMeVOtSWB
Washington, D.C.
Joined November 2008
RT @_TimBarker: The lamps are going out all over, and we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.
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RT @KenRoth: "It cannot be denied: Israel is starving children to death on purpose. Starvation of civilians is not an accident of war, it i….
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In July, major news organizations published the image of 18-month-old Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, a Palestinian child so emaciated that his bones protruded through his back, while his mom...
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RT @sandeepvaheesan: Every time I see a Hovenkamp tweet (even when he isn't comparing Uber to Rosa Parks and Gandhi), I now immediately thi….
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RT @GregTSargent: @DouthatNYT Coda: Note JD piously telling @DouthatNYT he hoped to obey "Christian principles.". In fact, JD dissembled ab….
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If you were wrong about Iraq the right move is to seek penance every chance you get, not whatever this is.
1. I think this post is Yglesias' response to critics who bring up his support of Iraq war. The implicit argument here is "sure, I supported the Iraq war, but most people did." The deception here is one of omission. Yglesias specifically supported the war out of crackpot neo-con
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RT @amandalfischer: For almost 20 years, many of us warned of “financialization,” or the creep of finance into all aspects of social intera….
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RT @bradlander: BREAKING: The ICE officers at 26 Federal Plaza hate it when I show up for court observation. Here’s my good-faith offer:….
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Masked ICE agents continued to apprehend immigrants attending mandated court hearings at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday.
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RT @DavidpStein: Another thing--this frame, when the March on Washington leaders met with JFK. Kennedy ignored the economic demands of th….
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RT @noturtlesoup17: Some old white hippies I recorded at the Benning Road HSI/ERO/MPD checkpoint on Monday.
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RT @DavidpStein: This is happening in a time of *relative* economic stability—not a recession, sub 5% unemployment rates etc. Not as intens….
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Great stuff. Among many reasons I see the 2008 Financial Crisis as the central event and metaphor for our era.
AI, ORALITY, AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF GRIFT. In today's newsletter, I go back to Ong-posting to try to answer the question of why grift is so out in the open these days. Why don't people feel shame and the impulse to obfuscate? Why don't other people react more judgmentally?
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RT @hiltzikm: Commentary: Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash
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The AI frenzy has been fueled by relentless hype, but the dud launched by OpenAI has its former enthusiasts wondering if they've been taken.
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RT @viaCristiano: Reminder that it's technically still illegal for websites and app stores to carry TikTok under a law passed by Congress t….
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This unfortunate ambiguity is a prime opportunity for the Democratic Party leadership to explain exactly what it thinks about what Trump and Biden have done in Gaza.
NEW — Days after saying we have to “take action” to stop the “starvation, and genocide, and destruction of Gaza,” top Democrat Katherine Clark BACKTRACKS, says she wants to be “clear that I am not accusing Israel of genocide.”
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RT @linamkhan: Important ruling. Antitrust academia is rife with undisclosed funding from big tech and other business interests. Good for….
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RT @Birdyword: "Nothing about the future" is admittedly a very funny complaint to have about museums.
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