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The Bad Faith of Neo-Liberals
I do not know why this kind of agreement should be any surprise to those who have been paying attention to what neoliberals have been trying to do to pensions across the USA. It has become a standard operating procedure… Continue reading
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5 glaring contradictions that sank the GOP – Salon.com
What Obama’s win, alongside surging Democratic senators, disrupted was the dubious marriage between billionaires dying to own the government and fundamentalists dying to institutionalize universal morality. This election exploded Reaganite propaganda that “big government” is the problem by spotlighting the… Continue reading
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The Antidote to Ayn Rand < Truthout.org
The last word of Ayn Rand’s dystopian novella Anthem is “EGO.” Grasping the significance of this forbidden word is a kind of divine revelation for the novel’s protagonist, signaling his emancipation from the benighted, collectivist society into which he was… Continue reading
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The Fox News & the Hedgehog Syndrome
It very well could be that I am drawing a hasty generalization. But I have been watching politics closely for 30 years. Since the 1996 campaign, I have seen an interesting phenomenon: Democrats spent a lot of time trying to… Continue reading
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Makers & Takers: More of the Long Con
A lot of my “everyday” existential philosophizing takes the form of asking people to be aware of the Long Con or the Big Sting… that is where you become your own mark in the long con game of bad faith… Continue reading
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Killing the Liberal Arts… A Non-Conservation
The importance of the humanities in educating citizens is why we have undoubtedly seen the consequences of the decline in of the liberal arts nowhere more than in the quality of the public debate. The disappearance of the liberal arts… Continue reading
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The Ridiculous Rise of Ayn Rand – The Conversation – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Continuing the non-discussion about Ayn Rand and her unfortunate influence: Right-wing think tanks can have Rand (even if she had little use for them). In the academy, she is a nonperson. Her theories are works of fiction. Her works of… Continue reading
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A Public Soul in Stasis: Ayn Rand vs. the Pope – Salon.com
The Greek word for “civil war” is stasis. While that might seem strange to them modern ear, it actually makes sense. Stasis is achieved when two or more great forces bring a thing/process to a halt. Much of our public… Continue reading
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The issues with Ayn Rand…
Yesterday, I posted a lecture by David Harvey on Karl Marx Das Kapital. I did this because the majority of people have not even read Marx’s main work and do not really get what he is talking about. On the… Continue reading
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