Friday, October 2, 2026

How Power Works

When the state decides to isolate, discredit and crush you it has innumerable ways to do so.

Reconsidering criminal punishment

We know that the prison system is expensive to maintain and not particularly effective. So what are other solutions to crime?

Socialism, Capitalism, Or …?

Can we create socialism within capitalism, or capitalism within socialism?

If you make under $75,000, you lose

Behind closed doors, Republicans admit that their tax plan is all for their rich donors.

What should we do about a mentally ill president?

If the occasional appearance of sanity is all we ask of Trump, then his reign of insanity will be our fault.

Nice try, Chris Hedges, but neither Joyce, nor Ulysses offers a relevant political manifesto

Where's proof behind Hedges' hyperbole that James Joyce is especially unique in railing against the "poisons of nationalism and idolatry"—or offers political urgency?

56% of Muslim Americans support women’s right to choose, and more Muslim-majority nations offer...

The American conviction that all Muslims are fundamentalists has led to a misunderstanding of Muslim societies.

What in the world is happening in and to America? Has it lost its...

What in the world is happening in and to America, that’s the question that we Americans must answer as our democracy, our republic, comes under intense political attack, and may well become a thing of the past, if the former president, Donald J. Trump, is reelected.

The Coddling of the Capitalist, White-Supremacist, Patriarchal American Mind

When does merely offensive speech becomes oppressive? When should one person’s freedom of expression, no matter how offensive, be defended and when does a pattern of abusive expression clearly undermine the ability of others to participate fully in a classroom discussion?

The Vietnam and Gaza wars shattered young illusions about US leaders

Six decades later, it took much less time for young Americans to turn decisively against their government’s key role of arming Israel’s war on Gaza.