A Review of Barbara Tuchman’s “The March of Folly”
Tuchman believes that folly is “timeless and universal.” Much as I enjoy her work, I don’t.
Read more...Tuchman believes that folly is “timeless and universal.” Much as I enjoy her work, I don’t.
Read more...But Jha and Walensky aren’t the only residents of Newton, thank heavens.
Read more...Michael Hudson has a wide-ranging talk with Ralph Nader.
Read more...Two Russian militarty experts comment on the partial mobilization and what might come next.
Read more...In a novelist’s world, there’d be two attacks on liberty, and the public would be led to see one of them.
Read more...How so-called free trade has often brought large scale death, sometimes by design.
Read more...Additonal speculation about the Putin speech, the Russian partial moblization, and what might happen next.
Read more...What passes for the elite in this country is normally immune from prosecution or even career harm if they follow their monetary interests: curry favor with the right people, never cross anyone important unless the potential payoff is worth it. Morals be damned. We may have the gratifying spectacle of someone who openly, as in […]
Read more...Some US senators are pushing what looks like another sanctions own goal…..assuming it gets done.
Read more...Putin announced that Russia is escalating its commitment to the conflict in Ukraine.
Read more...Finally some in America are willing to speak out against the financial and human costs of the Ukraine conflict and urge neogitations.
Read more...A look at how the US likes to present its role in the escalating conflict over Taiwan.
Read more...The gutting of USPS is accelerating. A step backwards for what passes as American civilization.
Read more...Pope Francis’ recent statement that providing weapons to Ukraine can be a moral decision puts him at odds with his own pronouncements on war over the years and with a large chunk of the population of the Global South, now the population center for the Catholic Church.
Read more...How the EU’s neoliberal Rube Goldberg electricity market has made the energy shortage problem much worse than it needed to be.
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