The Irish Buddhist Monk Who Faced Down the British Empire
Dhammaloka’s story sheds new light on the history of non-violent resistance.
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Can the Intra-Party Rift Be Healed, At Least For Now? Or Must the Fight Be Fought in 2020?
Is the Democratic Party redeemable?
Read more...Debt and Power: An Interview With Michael Hudson
Micheal Hudson explains how the ancient approach to managing debt is far superior to ours.
Read more...Why Sanctions Against Iran and Venezuela During a Pandemic Are Cruel
A moral and practical case against continuing economic sanctions during the coronavirus pandemic.
Read more...I Knew My Dad Was a Sexual Predator
A predator needs many enablers. We only need to turn one.
Read more...Harvard’s “Let Them Eat Veritas”: Richest University’s Poor Students Shafted as School Provides Spotty, Inadequate Help as It Throws Them Out of Dorms and Jobs
Harvard’s appalling response to coronavirus has thrown many low income student under the bus.
Read more...As Youth Suicides Climb, Anguished Parents Begin To Speak Out
It’s not just that suicides are rising among teens but that many well-adjusted-seeming kids are killing themselves.
Read more...Marcie Frost Indictment: Overwhelming Majority of Investment Professionals Would Not Recommend Joining CalPERS
A survey of CalPERS’ investment professionals reveals that CalPERS is one big unhappy family. Not only that, it shows that they’ve become less happy in the last year, since Ben Meng became Chief Investment Officer. We’ve embedded the summary page of the survey, but this section shows that less than 1/4 of CalPERS’ investment professional […]
Read more...Let’s Get Real. Economists Have a Women Problem
Lynn Parramore discusses another blindspot for most economists : their treatment of women. Happy International Women’s Day!
Read more...Revillaging: Looking to Our Roots as We Redesign Towns and Cities
Revillaging as a way to improve communities by improving daily life.
Read more...‘Biological Clocks’, Import Competition, and the Gender Gap in Earnings: The China Effect
Why did American women stop putting off having children? Dimished opportunities due to China import competition played a significant role.
Read more...How Books and Bookshops Improve Our Mental Health – And Why We Must Protect Them
Books as therapy.
Read more...Let’s Crush the Woke Plutonomy! An Interview + Review of The Populist’s Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left are Rising by Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti
How the ordering of the world to suit the 1% – also known as plutonomy – has generated long-overdue “populist” pushback.
Read more...What Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy Can Offer in the Anthropocene
Frank: “Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a ‘secondary rationalisation’ of instinctual drives.”
Read more...Porkfest! Tallying How Much the Pentagon Really Costs
Yes, sports fans, Pentagon spending is even worse than you imagined.
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