Safe Speech vs Free Speech: Higher Education’s False Dilemma
Universities should remember that the original purpose of free speech was to empower the weak, not to shelter them.
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From an Un-Caring Economy to a Caring Economy: The Tax Justice Network Podcast, April 2021
“Caring economy” sounds awfully soft and fuzzy. However, it may finally be time to reject utlitarian views of how we organize our resources.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Plato, Aristophanes and Aristotle on Money-Lust, 399-380 BC
While Plato, following Socrates, saw money as leading to hubris, Greek philosophers didn’t care much for working men either.
Read more...Welcome to the Age of Hysteria
Hysteria was removed from the DSM as a disorder in the 1980s, apparenlty making it safe as the business model of the neoliberal age.
Read more...Slaughter Central: The United States as a Mass-Killing Machine
Puttig some metrics on America’s dedicated killing devices, from guns to armaments.
Read more...Prince Philip Was the Godfather of Anglo-British Nationalism
Prince Philip pulled together TV, tabloids and monarchy. But that won’t work for younger generations – as Harry and Meghan know
Read more...Good Friday and Easter Church Raid Attempts by Police Over Covid Intensify Conservative Christian Vaccine Hesitancy
A doctor describes how the officialdom’s arrogant, “one size fits all” vaccine messaging is backfiring by alienating conservative Christians.
Read more...Martin Luther King’s America Redux: “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World”
Liz Theoharis commemorates the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech.
Read more...Christian Nationalism Is a Barrier to Mass Vaccination Against COVID-19
Some Christian evangelicals are rejecting Covid vacccines, and some of the current approches to increasing uptake will backfire with them.
Read more...Getting a Prescription to Die Remains Tricky Even as Aid-in-Dying Bills Gain Momentum
Right to die laws are scarce in the US, and too often a muddle where they
Read more...Philanthrocapitalists: The Pied Pipers of ‘Modern Slavery’?
Hundreds of millions of dollars for anti-trafficking/slavery sidesteps how rich countries exploit labour in poor nations.
Read more...Utopian Socialism Brings About Toilet Paper Shortages Maybe In The Near Future, or A Short Ideological History of the Suez Canal
Why it’s socialists’ fault that that big ship is stuck in the Suez.
Read more...Cabin Fever: Americans (of Means) Keen to Travel. How Many Will Play it Safe?
The travel genie is about to leave the bottle.
Read more...The Long Term Damage of Economic Downturns
As the well off sail on, either unaffected by or profiting from Covid’s impact, for many, the economic damage is severe and lasting.
Read more...Why Would Anyone Buy Crypto Art – Let Alone Spend Millions on What’s Essentially a Link to a JPEG File?
Trying to make sense of crypto art.
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