The Famous Baseball-Watching Equality-Equity Graphic, Scrutinized
Turning to a classic policy debate: equality versus equity.
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Chile in Flames: The Neoliberal Model in Crisis Throughout the Region
An overview of the protests in Chile.
Read more...The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic: Part 2 of 4: The First Hammer-Blows
How the Roman Republic repeatedly rejected economic reforms and fell more and more to bloody insurrections by ambitious consuls and Senators.
Read more...Why Taking Responsibility for Our Carbon Emissions Means Promoting the Right to Repair
Back to the future means not just considering the ability to repair but more actively purchases of new goods just for the thrill of acquisition.
Read more...Are Cognitive Frameworks Hard-Coded in Language Driving Humanity to Crisis?
Is language, or more specifically, notions strongly represented in major modern languages, a big culprit in our inability to contend with self-induced existential threats?
Read more...Bill Black: Eric Holder is the Official Missing from Discussions of the Bidens’ Ukrainian Efforts
How the Bidens’ Ukraine scandal has been a big gift to Trump, but the biggest was Eric Holder’s refusal to prosecute bank executives.
Read more...What Gandhi Believed Is the Purpose of a Corporation
Gandhi had a well-developed view on corporate goverance and influenced business leaders.
Read more...America’s Final Patriots: An Interview + Book Review of Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud by Tom Mueller (Riverhead Books, 2019)
A new, “brutally researched” book on whistleblowers describes their importance and the price they often pay.
Read more...After Climate-Focused 2020 Bid, Inslee Faces Indigenous Campaigners’ Demand to End All Fossil Fuel Projects in Washington
Governor Jay Inslee exposed as a climate change hypocrite.
Read more...Big Tech ‘Nudges’ Our Behavior for Its Own Greed: Here’s a 4-Step Social Media Self-Defense Class
Some simple suggestions for how to keep tech from running your life.
Read more...Take Your Pick of Left Wing Climate Change Narratives: Green Abundance or Righteous Austerity
Is there climate change orthodoxy?
Read more...The Failure of Higher Education: A Tale of Two Diplomas
How teachers and students have meekly accepted the strangling of education.
Read more...North American Bird Populations Plunge 30% Since 1970
Study reports 30% drop in North American bird populations since 1970 – a loss of 3 billion birds.
Read more...Why Degrowth Is the Only Responsible Way Forward
Why degrowth is necessary and potentially attractive.
Read more...Two Entrepreneurs Explain Why the Health Insurance Industry Is a Direct Threat to Middle-Class Life
Quelle surprise! Businessmen would rather pay their workers than health care rent extractors.
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