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Well, as university students they are likely to be quite young and from fairly comfortable, largely segregated white backgrounds. I'm guessing that th...

Part II The Second Great Migration of blacks from the south to the north began in the latter years of the Great Depression when manufacturing finally ...

Part I They have to rely on because the actual history of systematic oppression is not so easily simplified. For instance, SJW should know that in 201...

No, I'm not an apologist for Islam; Islam is one of several religions I don't much like. But, whether we like it or loathe it, we should at least be a...

Whether Christian, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist, or whatever it is, there is (there has to be) a connection between what people believe and how they behave...

Frank Bruni's opinion piece in today's New York Times (June 4, '17) is about your topic. He says, "But we’re never going to make the progress that we ...

Gerrymandering, institutional barriers laid in the way of voters are not new, and not good. If both parties are doing it, then it's worse. 140 million...

"In what sense has it fallen?" he asks. #()%*&#()@%*&! 1. The Communist Party and government structure existing in the USSR ended. (Not saying the com...

You got it. x = statement valued at 1 a = multiplies statement by 10 b = multiplies a by 10 c = multiplies b by 10 1 innocuous statement ("house nigge...

You have to look at the history of Russia / USSR / Russia-again. What was it about centuries of Tzarist autocracy that would have encouraged a highly ...

In the Marx Archives there are extensive writings on the Godzilla of Capitalism -- it's strangely an unexploited area of study.

Poor Poseidon lost his grand regalia Naughty Neptune ain't showin' genitalia. https://68.media.tumblr.com/bbafeeb28c71140731e575b050cddc46/tumblr_oqyd...

Just to be clear, it was the decision of whoever put the statue there that was impertinent -- or rude. Isn't that what the dispute in NYC is about? Wa...

I contain multitudes and it seems to be getting worse.

Sponsored, paid for, contracted, commissioned... art should meet the requirements of the sponsor, if the artist wants more work in the future. Work th...

I thought that placing the girl figure in front of the bull figure was impertinent. On its own, the girl figure has much less aesthetic and symbolic v...

That Trump is hiding a good deal seems far more compelling than a theory that he is merely stupid or petulant. If he has high crimes and misdemeanors ...

I don't see why the "publicness" of an art work should reflect "this", rather than "that" kind of story. The public has many points of view, and if th...

That's right, and people routinely move from slight annoyance to outrage in a half-step. Outrage is just rhetorically more useful. I don't think that ...

More likely the streets of NY are the property of the City of New York.

It's getting harder for artists to make art that is both original and doesn't offend too much to be tolerated. What's an artist to do? Art has spun ar...

I'd have made the dog bigger.

Some socialists seem to think this, and some capitalists also think so. Human ingenuity is a great thing, but we should have learned by now that there...

Liquidating the wealth of the rich and distributing it evenly among 7 billion people isn't what is being proposed. Certainly, the rich would lose thei...

You are assuming that the "below average" (unenlightened's stupid, the ignorant and the irrational) would somehow vote differently than the "average" ...

The splendid jargonized pyrotechnic caricatures of postmodernism discussed in your references are apt demonstrations of what happens when people come ...

Right. Salvation won't be brought about by a redistribution of wealth. What is critical in Matthew 25:35-36 are acts of mercy and unconditional love f...

There is a slope of diminishing returns here. Freeloading discourages the charitable giving of others, ultimately resulting in the coarsening of socie...

Your position is spot on. Fair and square -- no exploitation -- a fortune of almost any size is unobtainable. After they get done exploiting the worke...

Question, think! Most of the information at your fingertips is dependent on a continuous supply of electricity. Delete the electrical supply (lots of ...

I guess, but I am not sure what you are trying to get across here. Clarify, perhaps.

There is something problematic about this statement: First, there is a difference between easy to get and hard to get. It takes a mammoth amount of en...

Any "general thinker" should try to get a grip on as much past and future as he can manage: understand where we have come from (not an easy task) and ...

It's not obviously feasible, so if colonizing a planet belonging to another star is a serious suggestion, then you should suggest a feasible way to do...

Sivad, what is your plan for colonizing space? When? Where? How?

For soft, juicy thin-skinned endo-skeletoned beasts like ourselves, I imagine the whole universe is pretty much a death trap. True, there are various ...

Game of cards bit from a W. C. Fields movie (1930s...) a player: "Is this a game of chance?" Fields (the dealer) "No, not the way I play it."

Everybody. The investment groups that fund large projects; the entrepreneur who has put up his own funds and borrowed more; the employees who risk inj...

Chance certainly plays a role. Having the right idea at the right time in the right place and pitching it to the right investor is often a matter of s...

That's right. All sorts of businesses are jockeying to be in a commanding position where they can dictate as many terms to customers, employees, and s...

Amazon is following a different model, in that they have grown the volume of the business enormously without producing a lot of profit for investors. ...

Walmart doesn't just destroy the competition, they are very hard on their suppliers -- forcing down prices until the companies are forced to take thei...

I wish a UK labor person would provide a good "25 words or less" explanation what Corbyn does or does not stand for (might take 25 pages or more) and ...

Good example. Amazon?

The past is never past. We have a lot of technology on hand already. Here's a picture of the Erie Canal, which it turns out, is coming in handy for mo...

I think you are quite right about asymmetric advantages. Possessing substantial advantages (the well-defended high ground; or rich resources; or a cor...

I don't know much about Faulkner, but can any of us be certain we are telling only the truth about our individual pasts? Maybe it is necessary to lie ...

At 70, my future is a lot shorter than my past. I'm fine with that. Ten more years would be about right--twenty, too long. But I could be dead this af...

""The past is never dead. It's not even past." Faulkner

An old psych professor in college put it this way, "Want to is more important than IQ." A person of measured average intelligence (say, 100-110 on a S...