(ON THE NEED TO ATTACH STRINGS) BACKGROUND: Since the fall of ’08, there has been a well-meaning yet very mis-led […]

  OPENING REMARKS: The American reluctance to embrace mass transit in the form of public, high-speed, mag-lev rail-lines (PHMR) is […]

The ideology / movement that goes by the name “Neoliberalism” is characterized by 10 telling features.  It thrives within the […]

Neoliberal ideology (i.e. free market fundamentalism) invokes ersatz-principles that are covertly pernicious and blatantly duplicitous.  The ideology is based on […]

1  Marginal progressive taxation fetters innovation.  That is, taxing high incomes at a higher rate (marginally) than lower incomes somehow […]

    OVERVIEW: Additional ways to deconstruct Neoliberal Newspeak involve exposing the ersatz virtues that are often touted in right-wing […]

A TALE OF TWO AMERICAS INTRODUCTION: Elsewhere, I have discussed the (absurd) notion that there is some necessary correlation between […]

Corporatism can be defined as State-corporate collusion.  In other words, it is the process by which politicians within government collude […]

DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE: THE NEXUS OF ARISTOTLE & RAWLS: According to what basic principles should opportunity and power be distributed?  The […]

The explanation offered by the right wing (i.e. the corporatists) for the 2008 financial collapse was a tour de force […]