Without a Serious Middle East Peace Effort, Hatred Will Only Grow
Jul 17, 2016 I am convinced that it is in the vital interest of Israel to make peace with the Palestinian people, and with the Arab world at large, before the dangerous infection of extreme ideology engulfs the entire region.
Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Policy Resumé: What the Record Shows
May 6, 2016 To many Americans, Clinton is best-known for her advocacy of a national health care system, her assertion that it takes a village to raise a child, and her championing of women’s empowerment. The rest of the world knows her better for her passion for bombing.
America’s Addiction to Violence
Dec 28, 2015 Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that both lives by violence and uses it as a tool to feed the coffers of the merchants of death.
The Curse of Totalitarianism and the Challenge of an Insurrectional Pedagogy
Oct 1, 2015 It is frightfully clear that the conditions for totalitarianism and state violence are with us, smothering critical thought, social responsibility, the ethical imagination and politics itself.
Bubbles Always Burst: The Education of an Economist
Sep 30, 2015 To learn about the topics that interested me most as a young economist, I had to leave university and go to work for banks.
The Far Left Needs to Relax a Little and Support Bernie Sanders
Sep 19, 2015 Sanders' leftist critics can fantasize that they are doing humanity a great service by scoffing at his campaign, but who is making greater strides toward triggering the mass enlightenment that is key to empowering the oppressed?
The Fight Against the ‘Former People’ of the Yanukovych Regime
Feb 26, 2015 I would love to believe this wonderful story of how a new, democratic Ukraine is fighting against an old, authoritarian bureaucracy, but there are too many indications that this story is flawed.
The Economics of Contempt
May 23, 2014 If it’s spring, it must be time for Barack Obama’s annual drive-by of black America, where he piously lectures them on the state of their lives. He didn’t disappoint this year, treating the nation to two speeches on civil rights in a single week.
Obama Killed the American Dream
Feb 8, 2014 Here's your shining city on the hill in a nutshell: a privately owned gulag where petty drug offenders are locked up for life so some chiseling hedge fund manager can report record profits to his shareholders.
The True State of the Economy
Oct 5, 2013 There is a tradeoff for all the loot Obama’s friends have been pilfering from working people, and that tradeoff is trust. Americans no longer have confidence in the government, the market or the justice system. And while the effects might not appear in the next month or two, there are sectors of the economy that are showing signs of weakness already.
