political philosophy

Banks and other asset holders are stuffed to the gills with cash. Assets of all kinds are overvalued. They’re going...

Nothing has threatened democracy in America more than ideas America itself has created. Nothing threatens it so much today as...

The idea of sitting for decades to scratch an ideological itch is ridiculous. A judge is not supposed to care...

No man is an island. No city is an island. No country is an island. We are all part of...

The biggest support for right-wing idiocy is this smug assertion by liberal elites that “other people” are gullible, that only...

It’s because capitalism demands flexibility that Trump is doomed. The flexible political system of democracy buttresses capitalism, as our system...

This election won’t determine whether Trump is the American Hitler. It will decide whether he becomes the American Stalin, who...

Investment in public goods is theoretically unlimited. This means the potential growth of economies that value public goods is also...

FDR turned Wilson’s darkness into the light of the New Deal, the United Nations, and the Marshall Plan. It’s this...

By the time Trump loses, the financial cupboard will be bare. The federal debt will be unmanageable. The U.S. dollar...