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The following is an open letter to the prominent US journalist David Brooks by API Associate Torrey Byles. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the position of the Aurora Philosophy Institute.

The Unfinished Apostasy of David Brooks

Emotions – A Conundrum 

Good Morning Everyone,

Talk by Alla Marchenko

(API Fall Social Party @ Aw Shucks, Aurora 12.10.23)

Hi Everyone,

Talk by Ronen Grunberg

(API Fall Social Party @ Aw Shucks, Aurora 12.10.23)

Talk by Shishir Lakhani

‘Art’ A Breathing Room for My Spirit 

According to Graeber and Wengrow, for “the vast majority of human social experience”, we enjoyed “three primordial freedoms”:
 1. The freedom to move,
 2. The freedom to disobey

“It is significant that the Bank of Canada is now explicitly using the expression ‘policy rate of interest’.

Back in the day, when I was teaching university courses in ‘Money and Banking’, it was identified simply as the ‘overnight rate’, i.e., the rate determined in the overnight market for ‘federal funds’ (to use the American term).

It required some effort in those days to demonstrate to the students that it really was a policy variable. Now the Canadian central bank openly admits it.”