# Charles Tilly

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Read_930 - Stablecoins: Evolution, Not A Revolution

"You can’t open your own private mint moving that kind of liquidity and hope to stay under the regulatory radar." ~ Roy Sheinfeld Stablecoins are booming, but are they building toward something bigger - or just recreating the old system with a crypto coat of paint? Roy Sheinfeld breaks down wh ...

Non-Consensual Governance

After a six-month hiatus, Logan and Ben come back to dismiss "Consent of the Governed" and move on to what happens next. If consent of the governed does not dictate good governance, what does? We rollick through ideas from John Rawls, Jean-Jacque Rousseau, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Socrates (by ...

18. How to Live Without Blaming Others

Today, John Ortberg tackles one of our most stubborn spiritual habits: blame.Tracing its origins back to Genesis, John shows how blame enters the human story the moment shame appears—and how quickly we learn to deflect responsibility onto others. From Adam and Eve to modern relationships, blame ...

The power — and limits — of labor action with Michael McQuarrie [BONUS]

Bonus episode! You might’ve heard about a “shutdown” last week on January 30. Organizers urged people in the U.S. not to work, go to school or spend money at all to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But what is a shutdown, really? How is it different from a strike, or a protest — and ...

294: ICE Resistance

Prior to last month’s killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, many white American citizens felt obligated to use their privilege to actively disrupt unjust ICE activities in their cities. But the stakes just got higher for everyone. In the wake of these tragic deaths, we look at how the MAGA pr ...

Art and Enlightenment in China and Europe: A Conversation with Martin Powers

Our guest on this episode is Martin Powers, the Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan, and the author most recently of China and England: the Preindustrial Struggle for Justice in Word and Image. In Part One: Growing up in Back of the Yard ...

The Government as Organized Crime | Guest: News Fist | 8/24/26

Every government has to use force, but is that what defines the state? Is the government a servant of the people or just an organized crime family with better public relations? News Fist joins me as we read Charles Tilly's "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime" to better grasp the ori ...

33. CLEANING UP THE CITY: Waste-lands in Mumbai and Lagos (+moving capitals, +renaming cities, +urban running events and more)

In this month's episode, Beth and Tom reflect on UN World Clean-up Day, inviting Deji Akinpelu (Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development (CHSD) University of Lagos), and Purva Dewoolkar (School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester) to share their work rethink ...

Is Government Just a Legal Protection Racket? | Guest: News Fist | 9/21/26

Every functioning government provides physical protection while demanding money in the form of taxes. The state will send armed men to lock you up if you do not pay. Does that mean that governments are nothing but a glorified protection racket? News Fist joins me as we continue our series readin ...

How War Centralizes the Power of the State | Guest: News Fist | 9/28/26

News Fist returns as we wrap up our reading of "Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and Social Change" by Charles Tilly. In this episode, we address Tilly's assertion that warfare is the main catalyst of growth of state and the most effective method of centralizing its power. Does the sta ...