by Sean Dempsey | 06/02/24 When I try to make sense of currency in the digital age, I start from a conviction that feels almost embarrassingly old-fashioned: money cannot survive without hard grounding; it must not subsist as mere style. It can be abstract, electronic, contractual, or symbolic, but it cannot be only mood. Philosophers […]
BURLINGTON VT—This week the University of Vermont launched a new Texas Hold’em Poker Club for amateur card players and aspiring professionals alike. The new collegiate program boasts over a hundred and sixty-six members (a decade-long record for intervarsity extracurricular participation). The founders of the UVM Poker Club have a unique spin on the game that […]
Recent events at the nation’s Capitol have left true Libertarians with a sense of curious ambivalence. On one hand, we see a bunch of children and fools—championed by a self-serving and pompous puppet-master—forcing their way into the Capitol building for the mere sake of maintaining the status quo. Their mission (supposedly?) was to disrupt legal […]
