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Free Speech, Safety and the Triumph of Neoliberalism
A campus debate over free speech illustrates how the neoliberal world view is accepted by people who think they oppose it.
Read more...How Your Employer Uses Perks Like Wellness Programs, Phones and Free Food to Control Your Life
Just as Henry Ford sought to transform auto workers through a generous though invasive profit-sharing program, today’s employers also use perks to influence our behavior in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
Read more...McKinsey: Doing God’s Work in Puerto Rico
McKinsey would have you believe it is covering itself in glory in Puerto Rico. A New York Magazine story suggests otherwise.
Read more...‘The Greed of UnitedHealth Is Killing Americans’: Progressives Hit Back as Insurance CEO Bashes Medicare for All
The health care industry’s first salvo against Medicare for All did not go well.
Read more...Mourning Notre Dame
A few sad words about the loss of Notre Dame.
Read more...How to Win: Lessons from the Zad
Members of the Zad engaged in a nearly decade long, successful commual effort to block the construction of an airport near Nantes. But what happens when you win?
Read more...Sanders Takes the Campaign Against CAP to Eleven
Sanders takes off his gloves.
Read more...Where Are All the Bugs Going and What Can I Do About It?
Insects are the waste management contractors of ecosystems.
Read more...The Return of la Marine
Today, the divide from which Marine Le Pen profits has reached alarming proportions, most recently with the eruption of the revolt of the gilets jaunes.
Read more...New York Sues Big Pharma for Opioid Crisis
The Sackler family and PurduePharma profited from opioid-related “suffering and death,” NYC AG Letitia James charges. White collar criminologist and law professor Bill Black weighs in.
Read more...Belief in Meritocracy Is Not Only False, It’s Bad for You
Meritocracy is a dubious ideology, save for supporting the status quo.
Read more...The Delphic Oracle Was Their Davos: A Four-Part Interview With Michael Hudson: A New “Reality Economics” Curriculum Is Needed (Part 4)
How mainstream economics ignores the lessons from antiquity on the destructiveness of oligachies, and how early industrialists and business schools promoted anti-rentier, socialit policies.
Read more...Put Bernie Sanders’ Face on Those Joe Biden Photos, Then Imagine What Party Leaders Would Be Saying
Another cut on #MeToo’s hypocisy with respect to Biden.
Read more...The Delphic Oracle Was Their Davos: A Four-Part Interview With Michael Hudson: The Inherent Financial Instability in Western Civilization’s DNA (Part 3)
By John Siman, who is also the author of Part 1 and Part 2 in this series John Siman: It seems that unless there’s a Hammurabi-style “divine king” or some elected civic regulatory authority, oligarchies will arise and exploit their societies as much as they can, while trying to prevent the victimized economy from defending […]
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