Sep 24, 20142 minA dying societyFor-profit justice.— What’s going on in the prison-industrial complex is almost literally unbelievable. Just read Punishment for Sale:...
Sep 22, 201414 minU.S. labor historyPower-structures never want people to remember history, because knowledge empowers. Knowledge of how the oppressed have won victories, or...
Sep 20, 20141 minLearning from historyThe elite has the money, but the workers have the dignity. The elite consumes; the workers produce. Future ages always forget the past...
Sep 15, 20143 minHomo ludens vs. homo institutorum[Excerpt from a book.] The psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott said it simply—one of those simple but profound truths worth remembering: “It is...
Sep 10, 20145 minOur modern holocaust of individuality[Note to my first blog post: Much of this blog will consist of excerpts from books and other writings. Here's one of them--a rather grim...