There is a short Q & A with Elizabeth Anderson on her book “Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It)” at the Princeton Press website. A link to an hour long audio interview is at the bottom of this post. …other kinds of …
What next, after Anand Giridharadas finally understood, or actually felt it was necessary to speak up? Time will tell. After his book (Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World) he met to discuss some of the details on the On Being show. Some of the transcript is …
A lawsuit known as Juliana v. United States was brought by the nonprofit group Our Children’s Trust, and the plaintiffs are 21 youths, now between 11 and 22 years old. They accuse the US government of failing to tackle man-made changes to our atmosphere, thereby failing its duty in what is known as the …
Rifkin doesn’t entirely get it, but at least he is on the way to the ocean. At the heart of capitalism there lies a contradiction in the driving mechanism that has propelled it ever upward to commanding heights, but now is speeding it to its death: the inherent dynamism of …
We can: Overall this is a descent video, and going for a particular message or point, but a sequel is in order:
…Human labor is forbidden to be capitalized through direct human ownership. But through the marvel of modern finance human labor continues to be capitalized. Labor capitalization today is carried out through the ownership of businesses. The most familiar example today is the stock market where pieces of businesses are regularly …
Geert Hofstede and others produced Cultural Dimension theory to explain six dimensions of culture “that society needs to come to term with in order to organize itself.” source Of particular interest to anarchism is the Power Distance Index (PDI), and maybe the Masculinity and Individualism indexes. Whether they are actually …
video on “Debt 1st 5,000 years” source with more comments by Graeber: here written Interview below conducted by Philip Pilkington, a journalist and writer based in Dublin, Ireland. Philip Pilkington: Let’s begin. Most economists claim that money was invented to replace the barter system. But you’ve found something quite different, am …
Saul Newman: Postanarchism between Politics and Anti-Politics http://www.youtube.com/embed/gzZn5uvd1-8 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13569317.2011.607301
Victor J. Stenger In a recent short book neuroscientist Sam Harris pulls no punches on one of humanity’s oldest philosophical problems: “Free will is an illusion.”1 We don’t exist as immaterial conscious controllers, Harris claims, but are instead entirely physical beings whose decisions and behaviors are the fully caused products of the brain and …