Boredom, a Eulogy
Boredom has disappeared from our lives and with it, the ingenuity it spawned.
The Tyranny of False Civility
Tell the truth as a white person among white people, and American racism loses a little more of its sanctuary, its shelter, its food. Truth is power.
Bribery Is An American Tradition
Our government is for sale, but don’t blame Donald Trump. His clumsy cast of cartoon Mafiosi have merely taken the finesse out of the game, placing the oily guts of the machine out in the daylight.
Link Roundup, 5/10/2018
A political orphan’s guide to current events.
Where Are The Robots?
We are trapped in a push-pull between low unemployment with low pay and higher wages with disappearing jobs. That dynamic will remain as long we retain our cultural and economic dependence on mass employment.
Link Roundup, 5/4/2018
A political orphan’s guide to current events.
Americans Are United on Policy
Voting is the least powerful thing we do in a democracy. On the other hand, coordinating our voting behavior with others, backing that coordination with financial donations, and expressing our preferences with actual work in the streets converts that small influence into something potent.
Democrats Love a Jobs Guarantee. That Figures
Here’s how this program would actually work, once it’s been ground into political sausage.
Going Local – Could This Fix America’s Broken Political System?
America used to be proud of its “melting pot” moniker and its reputation for being a country where every person could be successful “if they worked for it.” How true is that today? Most of the time or some of the time? How does a nation determine the well-being of …
‘Free Speech’ Won’t Rescue Dumb Ideas
Neither the 1st Amendment, nor any moral or intellectual notion of free speech grants me a right to be taken seriously. No one has a 1st Amendment right to appear in a particular media platform. No one has a 1st Amendment right to be invited to speak on campus, be interviewed on TV, teach a class in a university, or get a featured column in The Atlantic. Freedom of speech is not equality of ideas.