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A Brief Introduction To The Issue

There are many false choices found in the public discourse.  That is to say, there are certain debates predicated on […]

A Trend Of Secularism

Who would you rather go to for a source of wisdom: the president of the Church of LDS or the […]

5 Myths About Secularism

When people portray “secularism” in a flawed way, four typical mistakes are made: Correlating secularism with materialism Associating secularism with […]

On Positive & Negative Rights

In Federalist #1, Alexander Hamilton warned us about charismatic pariahs who vociferously claim to want to protect our “rights”, yet—eventually—only […]

A Misplacement of Emptiness

For personal reasons that may well remain unknown to him as well as to the rest of us, Charles Taylor […]

Neoliberalism Defined

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

The Judeo-Christian Right Wing

There are many wonderful messages in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament–important moral messages that all of us […]

Neoliberal Newspeak II

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

14 Myths of Neoliberal Ideology

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

The Sophistry of Free Market Fundamentalism

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

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