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Education of a Grandmaster
By Perry G. Mehrling
JAN 28, 2026 | ECONOMICS PROFESSION | HISTORY
Kenneth Rogoff, Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead. Yale 2025."
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"Tous s’entendent en effet pour dire qu’il est trop tard pour remettre le génie dans la bouteille : écoles, cégeps et universités sont désormais contraints, à tout le moins, d’adapter leurs modes d’évaluation, le statu quo n’étant plus compatible avec un apprentissage réel des étudiants."
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"Arguably, the only prophetic movement in the Church (broadly conceived) in the modern period has been Sophiology, which began in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries with figures like Jacob Boehme, the Philadelphian Society, and William Law and has traces in German Romanticism and William Blake—all Protestants, by the way—then comes to full flower with the Russian sophiologists beginning with Solovyov in the late nineteenth century. From there, after having been forgotten, it spread again to the West and re-emerged in Catholic thinkers such as Hans Urs von Balthasar, Louis Bouyer, and Thomas Merton. In that, Sophiology is an inherently ecumenical phenomenon—and not the false ecumenism often paraded before us as a kind of superficial bonhomie that never leads to anything other than cringe-worthy handholding around a bonfire within which burns all semblance of Christian authenticity. Clearly, this ecumenism inspired by the sophianic is what Solovyov envisions at the end of A Short Story of the Anti-Christ—which he contrasts with the false ecumenism of Christian unity (and of Tolstoy) under the aegis of the Anti-Christ. After the remnant of true Christians gathers in the desert, they are granted a vision: “But the nocturnal darkness was suddenly illuminated with brilliant light and a great sign appeared in the heavens; it was a woman, clothed with the sun with the moon beneath her feet and a wreath of twelve stars on her head.”[5] Solovyov’s vision here is unapologetically biblical. Bulgakov continues this sophiological exegesis of the Apocalypse with a more explicit declaration: “The new Jerusalem is Divine Sophia rendering all creation transparent, shining out in created Sophia.”[6]
People often ask me what the warrant for Sophiology could be, given that it seems to be absent from most of the Fathers and most of “official” Church history. On the one hand, I think we are the unwitting victims of an interpretive tradition that turns Holy Tradition—whether East or West—into an idol. And in that tradition, the only way to read “Sophia” is as the Logos—and once such a commitment is accepted, no matter how erroneous or inexact, it is difficult to break its dogmatic spell. A simple, phenomenological reading of scripture, as I tried to show earlier in regards to σκηνη, can break one out of such an enchantment. But this is only one manner of revelation. The other is through mystical encounter. This combination of a clean, phenomenological reading of scripture companioned by personal experience seems to be what happened with Boehme (and others), was definitely the case with Solovyov and was also what informed (and formed) Bulgakov and Florensky. As Florensky writes in the very first sentence of The Pillar and Ground of the Truth, “Living religious experience as the sole legitimate way to gain knowledge of the dogmas—that is how I would like to express the general theme of my book.”[7] His attention to the epoché in that amazing book offers us a method by which this state is realized.
Sophia, the submerged reality as I have argued for more than the past decade, lies in hiding, as it were, awaiting discovery. We see resonances of this in the Gnostic mythos of Sophia’s exile or sleep. But we are the ones who are in exile; we are the ones asleep. One could compare the disclosure of the sophianic nature of Creation—and of the Church—to the disclosure of the laws of mathematics. Those laws were always there; they simply required individuals equipped—by nature, by historical process, most of all by curiosity—to find them.
My own belief is that the full disclosure of the sophianic and its illumination of the Church is still to come, and that this disclosure is part of the active eschatology heralded by Berdyaev—which, of course, suggests that the revelation of scripture is still incomplete (whereas a passive eschatology would think it complete). The sophianization of the cosmos is integral to this active eschatology, and it is not a passive event. As Berdyaev writes, “My salvation is bound up with that not only of other men but also of animals, plants, minerals, of every blade of grass—all must be transfigured and brought into the Kingdom of God. And this depends upon my creative efforts.”"
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" The monster was wokeness. Back then progressivism was regnant. Police were assailed and ridiculed. Racism, sexism and a thousand other isms were said to be everywhere. Scholars were fired for stating basic biological truths. An illiberal ideology pervaded the media and universities. In this hostile environment, conservatives made a Faustian bargain with Donald Trump: Kill the monster and we will support you. But for many on the right, embittered by years of culture-war losses, even victory was not enough. The left had to be punished, had to suffer. Owning the libs became central to the MAGA movement. And thus conservatism began to mutate into a monster.
Of course, Trump’s fitness for office has always been dubious. In 2016, one could be excused for supporting him. He was brash and boorish—but also new and audacious. In an era of stifling political correctness, his freedom with language and willingness to speak candidly about taboo subjects, even if crudely, seemed refreshing. The Reaganite Republican party seemed obsolete, built for a different era with different challenges. Trump was the creative destroyer. What was strong and worth preserving would survive his chaos, while the rest would fall away in ruin.
But this is no longer plausible. Trump is not a creative destroyer who preserves what is great about the country. Rather, he is a malignant destroyer. And whatever is redemptive about him is dwarfed by the damage he inflicts on the country and on conservatism here and around the world. His narcissism, his ignorance, his impulsiveness and his pettiness are all disqualifying. If conservatives continue to support him, they will squander any moral credibility they have. Their appeals to religion, decency and family values will seem little more than hypocritical cant.
This was once something conservatives understood. Character is destiny. Trump is Trump as a lion is a lion. If you invite a lion into your mansion, it does not become a house cat. And if you embrace the lion, it might tear you apart. Certainly, Trump is tearing conservatism apart.
In just the past month, he has not merely advertised but paraded his uniquely pernicious personality and unfitness for office."
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"In all of this I have not seen one single checkpoint, whether police or military. I have seen almost no guns; fewer than you would see on a similar tour taking in Whitehall. I have not been stopped once, whether on foot or in a car. I have seen absolutely zero sign of “Chavista militia” whether in poor, wealthy or central areas. I drove extensively round the opposition strongholds of Las Mercedes and Altamira and quite literally saw not a single armed policemen, not one militia man and not one soldier. People were out and about quite happily and normally. There was no feeling of repression whatsoever.
Again, nobody stopped me or asked who I am or why I was taking pictures. I did ask the Venezuelan authorities whether I needed a permit to take photos and publish articles, and their reply was a puzzled “why would you?”
The military checkpoints to maintain control, the roving gangs of Chavista armed groups, all the media descriptions of Caracas today are entirely a figment of CIA and Machado propaganda, simply regurgitated by a complicit billionaire and state media.
Do you know what else do not exist? The famous “shortages.” The only thing in short supply is shortage. There is a shortage of shortage. There is no shortage of anything in Venezuela.
A few weeks ago I saw on Twitter a photo of a supermarket in Caracas which somebody had put up to demonstrate that the shelves are extremely well stocked. It received hundreds of replies, either claiming it was a fake, or that it was an elite supermarket for the wealthy and that the shops for the majority were empty.
So I made a point, in working-class districts, of going into the neighbourhood, front room stores where ordinary people do their shopping. They were all very well stocked. There were no empty places on shelves. I also went round outdoor and covered markets, including an improbably huge one with over a hundred stalls catering solely for children’s birthday parties!"
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"Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are rapidly being integrated into the workflows of academics, researchers, and students. They offer the promise of quickly synthesising complex information and assisting with literature reviews. But what happens when these powerful tools encounter discredited science? Can they distinguish between robust findings and research that has been retracted due to errors, fraud, or other serious concerns?"
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"Consider two simple questions: What aspects of an LMS does AI make obsolete, and what new capabilities does it unlock?"
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