Migrating here
This is LHommeDeDialogue, a new Ghost site by John McIntire, which is (slowly) migrating from that other place. My posts from that other place should all be available here and there will be new content soon.
This is LHommeDeDialogue, a new Ghost site by John McIntire, which is (slowly) migrating from that other place. My posts from that other place should all be available here and there will be new content soon.
“I’ve got a house that’s a show place/still I cant get no place with you” Readers may know the novels of Louis Begley Jr or the stories of John Cheever which portray lost worlds, times now as remote as those of Musil, when well-dressed men managed
“Whirl is king” — McGuane The World Bank has published a Venezuela reconstruction report in record time[1]. It is a valuable report. The Bank’s team deserves credit, as do the official, scientific, and civil society organizations who contributed. The report nonetheless suffers from several fatal weaknesses, as I will
Seventeen months ago, I argued [1] that the Trump regime would let tariffs, spending cuts, and changes in institutions, regulations, and laws, as planned under Project 2025, fall wherever they happened. The regime’s planners gave little initial thought to distributional effects, probably assuming that their cultural base was strong
2026-07-04 Introduction Commentary is growing on the legal, procedural, and political aspects of restructuring Venezuela’s external debt1. That commentary works in something of an artistic void on the economic aspects, of which much is said and little is known. The FT reports (June 24, 2026) estimates of