AI-Experiments to Re-Anchor I-Phone Production to the United States and The Triple Failure By Jonathan Michael Feldman, April 13, 2025 In an article by  Tripp Mickle and Ana Swanson in The New York Times, “Trump Adds Tariff Exemptions for Smartphones, Computers and Other Electronics,” the head of Apple Tim Cook argued that it was too difficult to…

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By Jonathan Michael Feldman, April 6, 2025 On April 5, 2025 large-scale protests took place against Donald Trump’s regime. These protests have been described as being “oppositional,” but a movement of deconstruction is not sufficient for leveraging systemic power on the scale wielded by the Trump regime. These protests are but a first step to…

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By Jonathan Michael Feldman, March 9, 2025 A Case Study in Left Militarism As should be obvious, Russian transgressions in Ukraine have violated international law, basic conceptions of human rights and democracy. The military mobilization in Europe which has accompanied the response has come at a great cost to other security needs. The Trump Administration…

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By Jonathan Michael Feldman, March 4, 2025; Updated March 5, 2025 The Swedish TV program Agenda offers another non-debate on European militarism on March 2, 2025. The Lost Peace and Popular Opinion Today I had a rather long discussion with DeepSeek, the Chinese AI chat service, about a core argument related to why the West…

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By Jonathan Michael Feldman, December 21, 2024 Celebrations of Powerlessness On December 20, 2024 I noticed the following item on sale at the Union Square holiday market. That’s Union Square in Manhattan in New York City. This display itself is an ironic statement. This location has historically been one of New York City’s most important…

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By Jonathan M. Feldman, December 3, 2024 On December 2, 2024, persons protesting Israel’s policies in the Middle East were met with three police cars as a testimony to the state’s commitment to silence persons banging drums (and/or chanting slogans). The scene was Stockholm University, outside the window of my office. While the drum-beating potentially…

Continue readingNORMALITY IS VERY DANGEROUS: POLICE AND TV DON’T HELP: The Palestine Question and the Nuclear Question in Sweden

By Jonathan Michael Feldman, November 23, 2024 Deconstruction that Displaces Reconstruction A colleague recently remarked that various persons in the Left often have no ideas about how to organize society differently or that they lack proposals for solving problems. This issue is just another way of arguing that much of the left is involved in…

Continue readingThe “Rents of Superficiality”: Capitalism and the Left Professional Class

By Jonathan Michael Feldman, November 6, 2024; Updated November 10, 2024 Introduction In the opening post by Masha Gessen we see the confusion of liberal elites. They are unable to understand the difference between (a) exploiting a contradiction and (b) a majoritarian consensus. Masha Gessen, while a generally sophisticated observer, misses the larger nuances. The…

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By Jonathan Michael Feldman, October 19, 2024 Photo by the author. Anti-Semitism as a Displacement System for Stupidity In this essay I will address how substance, historical accountability and practical solutions are displaced by superficiality, historical amnesia, and moral posturing in the debate about Left Party anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in Swedish society. The October 2024…

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