Sunday, December 10, 2006 1% now owns 40% (2 comments)
Roughly like an airplane on which one passenger has 40% of the seats to himself. The other 99 passengers are also unequal, so that as you walk to the end of the plane the overcrowding worsens. Having most of the passengers painfully squashed and jammed into a few rows in the back, while one passenger has overflowing abundance, is a fair graphic for the shape of this society.
Saturday, November 11, 2006 Malthus on population, with contempt (2 comments)
Malthusian thinking informs today's conservative policies. It is undemocratic.
Friday, June 30, 2006 The Libertarian threat (2 comments)
A relatively small group, Libertarians have a voice in today's political environment because they have a clear ideology. Conservatives borrow from it. It is also quite reactionary. Some tenets are a threat to democracy.
