Why a 400-Year Program of Modernist Thinking is Exploding
Eurocentric modernism is not compatible with human civilization and is finally reaching its breaking point.
Read more...Category Archives: Social values
Why It Will Take a Lot More Than a Smartphone to Get the Sharing Economy Started
A look a sharing versus “sharing economy” hucksterism.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Retirement? What Social Obligation?
How neoliberals have rewritten the social contract around retirement.
Read more...European Identity and the Economic Crisis
The rise of right and left wing nationalists in Europe has led to soul searching about what it means to be European.
Read more...An Economy of Meaning – or Bust
Can one really create “an economy of meaning”?
Read more...Wearing White: What Resistance Looks Like in America’s Heartland
A labor struggle in South Bend as a window into unions’ ongoing resistance to corporate greed.
Read more...Grantham: ‘Twas Capitalism That Killed Capitalism
How capitalism became disconnected from social good, leading to hope for a “strong leader” will take on the rich and powerful.
Read more...Book Review: The Econocracy
The new book Econocracy describes how economics has become a narrow ideology with far too much power and what can be done about it
Read more...Mark Blyth on How Liberalism Undermined Democracy and the Failure of the Democratic Party
Mark Blyth gives another astute, sobering reading of US and international politics.
Read more...Women Skeptical of the Women’s March
A critical appraisal of the Women’s March.
Read more...Ilargi: The Media – Fake and False and Just Plain Nonsense
On political and media hypocrisy.
Read more...How Universities Are Increasingly Choosing Capitalism Over Education
How universities have come to operate less in interest of the public and more and more as private enterprises.
Read more...Why the “Maximize Shareholder Value” Theory Is Bogus
Why the bogus shareholder value theory of corporate governance needs to die.
Read more...Hidden Distress Among Well-Off Women in America
Why have lifespans flattened among middle and upper middle class women?
Read more...Waste Not, Want Not: Right to Repair Laws on Agenda in Some States
Right to repair laws are back on the agenda in five states. These measures would reduce costs and waste, and promote local repair services.
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