The Culture Of Lying
The recent story of the Indian tech company YesMadam firing all their workers who reported that they were stressed on the...
Category: Politics
Competitive Illusions
Recently, my significant other sent me out to buy a small, travel-size can of hair spray for a short trip we...
Brook No Argument
A friend recently sent me David Brooks’ article in the Atlantic entitled “How The Ivy League Broke America”, in which Brooks...
Ballot Backfire?
I’ll be writing about a few more random thoughts about specific issues in this election in the coming days. My fuller...
We Have No Idea
As with any election defeat, there is a certain amount of navel gazing and finger-pointing about the factors in the loss....
The Powers Of Concentration (Or How We Got Here)
One of the features of American society in the current era is the concentration of power in the hands of an...
Bragging Right
There is no better illustration of the orgy of white-collar criminal excess that colors the last forty years of Reaganomics and...
Partition And Death
I have previously written about the separatist elements within both the intellectual and populist right-wing that currently controls the Republican party....
The Trump Indictment
I have no idea what charges the grand jury in New York has indicted Trump on, and neither does anyone else....
Busting Banks
Over the weekend, the Treasury/Federal Reserve/FDIC stepped in to guarantee the deposits at the failed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and did...