Month: August 2016

I’m not going to argue that it’s a positive for the Democrats to have disappointing voter registration numbers in several key states, but I do want to warn against thinking too hard (or not hard enough) about this...

Interesting essay that merits reading as these are the topics many have written diaries/comments about in recent months on this site. .. anti-capitalist, secular Jew from Brooklyn with no identifiable religious belief .. What...

Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and professor in the Business and Society Program at New York University, has an interesting and valuable essay in the The American Interest about the different ways in which nationalists...

I think I hurt my feet every way there is to hurt your feet playing soccer today. I got stepped on. I re-cracked the big toe that is already black and broken, I had a full power foot-to-foot (no ball) collision, I badly bruised...

The failings of neoliberalism. the financial crisis, Brexit and the City, plus the revolt of Blairites [New Labour] to dump chosen Labour leader Corbyn in favor of Owen Smith. A bit opportunistic of mayor Khan as his...