Winner-Takes-All: Can We Care About Cooperation?
In sport and politics winners celebrate! They spill onto the streets and fields.
Big Pharma: Undermining Democracy & the Public Health
There is little doubt that the pharmaceutical industry, worldwide, has unimaginable power.
The Problem of Character in our Current Political Climate
What Trump attempts to do, and to a significant degree succeeds in doing, is purging thinking and deliberation from his world. This is especially evident in his attack on the thinking organs of public life…
It will go Away: Who lives Who Dies?
Wishful thinking will not make the virus go away.
We Should Care About Science
Healthy skepticism is important. We must always remain open to the possibility that we may be wrong (i.e., we are fallible). The Trump administration, those in his inner circle, and those influenced by them, have crossed the line. It is not healthy skepticism. It is a childish mocking of science.
Democracy in Peril: Voting Rights and the Electoral College
How do we care about voting?
Scars We Keep
How can I keep my mind open if my eyes are shut….
Ammon’s Army: Inside the Far-Right People’s Network
The People’s Rights Network has fused militia activists, Covid-19 deniers, and anti-maskers.
Can we care about work?
Using wealth inequality as the measure we are worse off today than 1935, resulting in an extreme populism threatening democracy.