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The Marxism of Black Reconstruction
A response to Dylan Riley on W.E.B. Du Bois
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Tim Barker

November 2023

Two Cheers for Conspiracy Theories
Can you ask questions about the JFK assassination without losing your mind?
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October 2023

That Time Joe Biden Tried to Ban Military Keynesianism
“It is not a proper function of the Department of Defense to make allowances for amounts needed to help stimulate the economy”
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Tim Barker

September 2023

The Mighty Wurlitzer Plays On
Jennifer Burns, Milton Friedman, and Socially Acceptable Apologies for Pinochet
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Chile: Scenes from a Capital Strike
"The memos might have been written by a Marxist novelist depicting capitalist warmongers."
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Tim Barker
Lessons That Can't Be Learned
Does anybody really care about historiography, or is it just a hazing ritual for grad students?
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August 2023

20 Errors in Gary Gerstle's "Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order"
Goldwater was chill about riots, Keynes liked deflation, and Biden's spending "almost reached World War II levels."
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The Longer History of "Derisking"
A modest proposal from the 1920s
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Tim Barker
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July 2023

PMC vs NAM?
What, you mean your parents didn't own any manufacturing companies?
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April 2023

Two papers about Wassily Leontief
Cleaning out the closet
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March 2023

Unemployment and Inflation in the 1950s
(A repost)
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Big in Germany
A short interview on military Keynesianism
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