Archive - Featherless Bipeds

Wherefore pegging

The Dollar Endgame is (slightly) wrong about Bretton Woods

Oct 8, 2023

August 2023

Don't take history lessons from Apes

The Dollar Endgame is wrong about the history of money - Part 2

Aug 15, 2023

Strange books on the internet distributing words are no basis for a system of finance

The Dollar Endgame is wrong about words - Part I

Aug 3, 2023

January 2023

Why didn't Sauron own a Lockheed AC-130 gunship?

Why Hasn't Middle-Earth had an Industrial Revolution? Part III

Jan 30, 2023

November 2022

Food Art Online

I spent way too much time thinking about agricultural economics in this one obscure anime

Nov 8, 2022

September 2022

No, Google Isn't Literally Stealing Your Free Will

Surveilling "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism"

Sep 28, 2022

August 2022

Does your country have terminal Daddy Issues?

An 8 year late review of Francis Fukuyama's Political Order Duology

Aug 18, 2022

July 2022

Why Didn't Frodo Baggins Have a PhD in Electrical Engineering?

Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution, Part II

Jul 5, 2022

June 2022

Why didn't Gandalf own a Colt .45?

Part I of Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?

Jun 27, 2022

Corn-Based Supermodels

Mildly Disagreeing With OurWorldInData

Jun 20, 2022

The Bad Economics of Ghost Pirates

An entirely too thorough examination of Scooby-Doo: Pirates Ahoy! (2006)

Jun 13, 2022

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