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Culture
The Twilight of Labor
by Pawel Fiedor
on Feb 5, 2013 • No Comments
How labor’s torpor is culpable for its own demise.
Culture / Energy
India Embraces an Inconvenient Truth
by Robert Hunziker
on Feb 4, 2013 • No Comments
The Political Scene
David Brooks Wrong on Meritocracy
by Matthew Bruenig
on Jan 29, 2013 • No Comments
Why his claims about higher education are way out of bounds.
Culture / Energy
Russia’s Climate Change Quandary
by Robert Hunziker
on Jan 24, 2013 • No Comments
No country in the world benefits by global warming as much as the coldest one on earth.
Econ Policy
A Trillion Dollar Dilemma
by Pawel Fiedor
on Jan 20, 2013 • 1 Comment
Myopic insistence on discussing the symptoms rather than the disease cannot lead to solutions guaranteeing healthy growth in the long term.
Media Commentary
Media, Government Target French Socialists
by William E. Shaub
on Jan 17, 2013 • No Comments
Culture
Kant’s Great Dodge
by Matthew Bruenig
on Jan 17, 2013 • No Comments
At one point in Theory and Practice, Kant sets out to establish who should have voting rights.
Culture / Energy
Climate Change and City-States on the High Seas
by Robert Hunziker
on Jan 11, 2013 • No Comments
Media Commentary
Is Obama Really the Democrats’ Reagan?
by William E. Shaub
on Jan 7, 2013 • No Comments
The problems with Barack Obama’s legacy and its effect on social change in the long term.
The Political Scene
Leftist Desert Theory
by Matthew Bruenig
on Jan 7, 2013 • No Comments
It’s hard to imagine why distributive justice requires an economic karma system where individual productivity and compensation need to be entirely balanced.
Econ Policy
Deus Ex Pecunia
by Pawel Fiedor
on Jan 2, 2013 • No Comments
The mechanism behind modern capitalism.
Media Commentary
Revisiting 1950s Capitalist Propaganda
by Matthew Bruenig
on Dec 28, 2012 • 1 Comment
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