What Markets Can't Tell You About Value
On the limits of price as a signal — and what gets lost when we stop asking deeper questions about worth.
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Power Without Accountability Is Just Violence With Better Branding
A short essay on why institutions that cannot be questioned eventually become the thing they were built to prevent.
PoliticsThe Argument From Consequences Is Almost Always Wrong
We justify too many things by pointing to their outcomes. But consequences are slippery, contested, and usually arrive too late to matter.
PhilosophyIndia's Middle Class Doesn't Want Justice. It Wants Order.
A provocation: the Indian middle class has confused stability with fairness for so long that it can no longer tell them apart.
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