Ash Milton

@miltonwrites

Contributor and Managing Editor at . Pitches: ash@palladiummag.com. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.

Joined May 2018

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    21 Nov 2019

    My latest at : I review (and highly recommend) 's The Value of Everything. The book confronts an overreaching financial sector and provides a powerful case for rebuilding state capacity. At center: an age-old battle in economics.

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  2. 11 hours ago

    Reminder: it's not "my landlord" but "my owner"

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  3. 11 hours ago

    Leibniz, China, and Jesuits

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  4. 12 hours ago

    Anyway we need this back but for interplanetary settlement

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  5. 12 hours ago

    The 1600s was one of the strangest periods in history. Early modernity saw global trade and info networks coexist with the height of witch trials and demonic possession (more than medieval period!). Ships had corporate agents and bookkeepers bunking with Franciscan exorcists.

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  6. 21 hours ago

    This was a wonderful short work. Could do a thread on it.

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  7. 21 hours ago

    "Thus I see in the intellect the power of the grain of the mustard seed; if it should be unfolded as actuality, this sensible world would not suffice...not even ten or a thousand, indeed not even so many worlds as one could enumerate." Nicholas of Cusa, On Searching for God

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  8. 22 hours ago

    Can't believe Christmas is over today. Countdown to Nativity 2020 begins.

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    Jan 31

    Spanish magazine El Cuaderno just published a translation of our piece The Universal Ambitions of China’s Illiberal Confucian Scholars.

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  11. Jan 31

    It's incredible how rude people get toward large families (4+ kids). They get the wildest flack, from "how sad for your mom" to "you're bad for the planet" ethical condemnation. I expect the latter to get more common. Thanks to big families. You're building the future. 🙏

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  13. Jan 30
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  14. Jan 29

    Been hearing about this, good overview thread of the dynamics at play.

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  15. Jan 29

    From Nahum: "The Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet." I think standing firm on this will be important. The faith of the martyrs can't be packaged into 12 step courses.

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  16. Jan 29

    Personal, therapeutic approaches to religion can be initially useful, esp from total irreligion. I'm seeing downstream influence from social meaning thinkers. But God is never a tool, a thing to be used. That conception will block even the utilitarian value some see in faith.

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    Jan 29

    Meeting with Deng Xiaopeng and Lee Kuan Yew. To be a fly on the wall

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  19. Jan 29

    Valuable reflection by : "...if the question could be put in the Chinese people's minds—in this world of easy sickness and woe, are military machines and censorship regimes really the best use of our wealth?—[we'd] be better off for it."

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  20. Jan 29

    Very excited for this piece. A great mix of prose, imagery, and analysis. This was an absolute pleasure to edit.

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  21. Jan 29

    Disrupting electoral social technologies: a thread

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