Morning Belz, June 11
Beginning farmers and burnout — Farm & Dairy
Maybe $400bn in unemployment benefits stolen — Axios
U.S. favored over China in Asia-Pacific (Feb. 2020) — Pew
Maybe Nero wasn’t so bad after all — New Yorker
Biden seems to be getting along well at G7 — Twitter
Judge halts debt relief program for farmers of color — JS
Half a Moderna better than a full Astrazeneca — Tabarrok
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“There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than ‘politicians’ think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.” — Michel Foucault, 1991
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