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I'm a retired philosophy professor at Centre College. My last book was Posthumanity-Thinking Philosophically about the Future (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004). I am an anti-capitalist.

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UMUC Graduation, From FlickrPhotos
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 11, 2018
The decline of tenure is degrading higher education The increasing replacement of tenure-track with contingent faculty is undermining the very institutions we need as a defense against the forces of willful ignorance let loose by Trump and the GOP. In 1969 78.3 % of faculty appointments were tenured or tenure track. By 2015 the ratio had nearly flipped: only 29% were tenured or tenure track. More than 50 percent of college faculty are part time intellectual migrant workers.
A single hour of New York City's carbon dioxide emissions, as one-ton spheres., From FlickrPhotos
(15 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Is our world becoming a sacrifice zone? Sacrifice zones are places where humans and the natural world are treated with the same disrespect, valued only for their profit potential and discarded as worthless once this potential has been extracted. The Appalachian sacrifice zone and red states such as Kansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana are examples of what Trump and the GOP want for all America. Continued burning of fossil fuels is turning the world into a sacrifice zone.
Putin puts Trump at ease, From FlickrPhotos
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 27, 2018
'Treason' Summit: a dangerous merge of Russophobia and Trump loathing On July 16 a badly needed dialogue between two nations with vast nuclear arsenals and a tense relationship took place in Helsinki. The Mueller indictments of July 13 combined with Trump's inept performance at a joint presser with Putin to give the Russiagate posse all it needed to fire up a new cold war. Never mind that the indictments are unproven allegations, and America's history of interfering with U.S.elections abroad.
MAGA, From FlickrPhotos
(17 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 28, 2018
The psychopathology of Trumpism Trump is a vile man--a liar, narcissist, immature, hyper-aggressive, sexist and racist. He is someone no self-respecting person should want as a friend and no sane employer or business associate would trust. Yet nearly 63 million voters chose him as their head of state. He has created for his tribe an anti-elitist fantasy, a world in which knowledge, experience and respect for others are no longer required for high office.
Yebnah Refugee Camp, From FlickrPhotos
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 28, 2018
What does it mean to be a friend of Israel? Does support for a Jewish homeland require defending the behavior of the Israeli government? Must a friend be an enabler? Should the U.S. enable the Netanyahu government to go on treating Gaza like a concentration camp for 1.9 million Palestinians? As the May 14 Gaza violence and the relocation of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem demonstrate, Netanyahu intends to let Gaza rot while flooding the West Bank with settlers.
From flickr.com: Waterboarding, From Images
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 13, 2018
Haspel nomination is a sign of increasing lawlessness and brutality of U.S. government Gina Haspel, Trump's nominee to head the CIA, is a war criminal. She is responsible for waterboarding and otherwise torturing prisoners during the War on Terror. After WWII the U.S. hanged Japanese military personnel who did this to Americans. Her nomination is one more sign of increasing lawlessness in our government. Our ruling class is no longer willing to punish crimes by members of the ruling class.
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 15, 2018
Can #MeToo withstand Hollywood's patriarchal male gaze? Did the 2018 Oscars ceremony really mark a turning point in Hollywood's sordid history of gender inequality and sexual harassment? Feminist criticism of Jennifer Lawrence's appearance in a Red Sparrow promotional photo, and her response to the critics, suggest that Hollywood isn't ready for a big change. The patriarchal structure and values of the film industry seem anchored in popular culture.
.mummy, is it safe to come out and play?., From FlickrPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, February 20, 2018
The new U.S. nuclear posture: playing with fire in a combustible world The new nuclear defense doctrine insanely advocates using "low-yield" nuclear weapons in response to non-nuclear attacks, including cyber strikes. It increases the risk of nuclear war amid the tension created by NATO expansion and the U.S. forces continuing to fight in Syria despite the reconquest of ISIS-held territory. The danger is heightened by the fear mongering and hypocritical rhetoric of Russiagate.
Instagram and other Social Media Apps, From FlickrPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 19, 2018
Social media and the corporate invasion of adolescence High school seniors spend an average of 6 hours a day on social media outside school time. The business plan of mega-corporations such as Facebook is to keep people on-screen as long as possible in order to maximize advertising revenue. So they are creating in teenagers a behavioral addiction that is crowding their lives and undermining their social relations. Public ownership of ISPs may be the only remedy.
alienation, From FlickrPhotos
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 21, 2017
Capitalism needs to become a bad word 'Capitalism' is an ill-defined, politically charged word that is central to Americans' perception of their national identity. Recent surveys show a decline in support for capitalism. As the GOP tax plan and the repeal of net neutrality show, capitalism is essentially predatory. It seeks to subordinate all the functions of the state to the growth of capital. Capitalism is a great danger to democracy and human flourishing.
From flickr.com: Democratic Donkey - 3D Icon, From Images
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Democrats: Drawing the wrong conclusion from elections November 7 didn't justify business-as-usual for the Clinton-Obama establishment and its blend of liberal identity politics and coziness with the corporate elite. American economic growth is not a "rising tide that lifts all boats." What we have instead is a small fleet of yachts in a rising sea full of swimmers trying to stay afloat. We need radical measures, not just the usual bromides about "growing the economy" and "jobs."
170529-D-GO396-0802, From FlickrPhotos
(37 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 21, 2017
Trump's mental instability threatens national security The desperate meme now echoed among pundits is that a small circle of mostly military advisors can buffer Trump's tantrums and pre-digest information to accommodate his limited attention span. He fits the APA criteria for antisocial and narcissistic personality disorders. Can an impulsive, deeply ignorant egomaniac be entrusted with the "nuclear football"? Or are we counting on a military coup if he orders a nuclear attack?
From flickr.com: Trump's sword dance, From Images
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The Saudis--our friends and partners in war crime Since March of 2015 a Saudi-led coalition has destroyed much of Yemen's infrastructure. The U.S. supports and profits from this crime. 7 million, including 2.3 million children under the age of five--are on the "cusp of famine." The children's future includes stunted growth of the brain and vital organs, mental retardation, and muscle weakness. We must end our bizarre alliance with this brutal and fanatic police state.
Labor Day Fireworks, From FlickrPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 28, 2017
An elegy for Labor Day Labor Day was instituted as a celebration of the American Labor movement. But the history and present state of labor is nothing to celebrate. The NLRA of 1935 was quickly hollowed out by the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 which permitted states to enact so-called right-to-work laws (now passed by 28 states). As the recent failure of the UAW to unionize the Nissan plant in Mississippi shows, U.S. labor is prostrate before capital.
Health care reform proponent, From FlickrPhotos
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 25, 2017
There is no 'free-market solution' for health insurance The conservative core of the GOP just 'knows' deep down that government should stay out of health care(as it should from all markets). We can see the absurdity and cruelty of this view by looking at why police protection and access to the courts cannot be treated as a commodity bought and sold in a free market. Like health care, they are costly but essential services beyond the means of ordinary citizens.
I've had enough trickle down economics, From FlickrPhotos
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Deja voodoo: an undead GOP economic theory is choking us Stripping funds from health care and the EPA, withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, sweeping de-regulation of production and finance, and large tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy are all symptoms of a fact-free dogma known as supply-side economics (aka "trickle-down"). Republicans want to throw even more wealth at an investor class that has stopped investing in production and job creation.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Unclear language and conceptual confusion obscure the abortion controversy Public opinion on abortion, unlike other hot social issues, has changed very little over the last 30 years. The apparent intractability of this issue is largely due to misunderstanding of the moral and legal concepts of personhood. The extreme "pro-choice" and "pro-life" positions both make the same mistake of interpreting personhood as an all-or-nothing attribute.
Assumption Cathedral, Yaroslavl, Russia, From FlickrPhotos
(19 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 27, 2017
Bipartisan Russophobia is a dangerous distortion The ongoing Ukraine crisis which has done so much to poison US-Russia relations must be seen in the context of the rapid march of NATO to the border of Russia, including efforts to add Ukraine to NATO. How would we have responded if the Warsaw Pact still existed and Mexico joined it? The Monroe Doctrine states that the U.S. regards as hostile any European government's attempt to control countries in our hemisphere.
From flickr.com: Trump, From Images
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 27, 2017
The Republicans' culture of irrationality Trump continues to be what he's been all his adult life: a serial liar. As a result, he is quickly losing credibility at home and abroad. Also, as evidenced by his administrative appointees and proposed budget cuts, he is suppressing information about, and planning for, the global instability threatened by climate change. These two behaviors are supported by a culture of irrationality embedded in the Republican base.
42a.SinglePayer.Protest.Baltim oreMD.11February2017, From FlickrPhotos
(16 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, February 25, 2017
Does the Democratic Party really believe health care is a right? The problem for Republicans is that some very popular features of Obamacare require a lot of government supervision and expensive subsidies, and the GOP is an anti-government party. The problem for Democrats is that they claim health care is a right, but will not commit to a universal health insurance program. Instead, they defend Obamacare which fails to insure 28 million people and wastes billions on for-profit health care.

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