Category: economics
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“Criticism unfolds the possibility of freedom and is thus an invitation to action.” “Criticism tells us that we should learn to dissolve the idols, should learn to dissolve them within… more ›
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I rarely feel or experience white privilege as such. As someone who grew up in poverty in rural Texas, I always thought the battle was between the poor and the… more ›
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Jean Baudrillard’s 1981 Simulacra and Simulation, translated by Sheila Faria Glaser in 1994, contains a four-page essay entitled “Hypermarket and Hypercommodity.” This short essay articulates the structure of the media… more ›
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IA certain Texas university announced today that it would free 100 employees from the shackles of employment by the end of next month. IIYears ago there were two boys who… more ›
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WritingThe irony is that in the year that I’ve written the most, I’ve blogged the least. You would think that writing is writing, and that one kind of writing would… more ›
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I’ve been to Prague several times before, both as a tourist and as a student. When I was here in the summer of 2001, I studied political and economic theory… more ›
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First, we need to create honest and accurate language. Adjunct designates an inessential supplement, yet adjunct professors are just as permanent a fixture at colleges and universities trying to save a… more ›
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Shopkeeper brandishes gun to prevent “looters”–otherwise known as desperate and traumatized survivors–from foraging for food and supplies. The only justice would be this fascist pig dying of starvation because he… more ›
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“Individual responsibility” is code for the worst kind of social engineering: libertarian ideology. The only ideology that has no basis in reality, libertarianism attempts to enforce a dogma of selfishness… more ›
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Lyrics from a lost song by Frankie Noir: “I’ve had this shark attached to my ankle for such a very long time / Ever since I went swimming in the… more ›