What if The Wall had never been built? What lessons might this teach us in the real world?
On Walls, Refugees and White Walkers
Fetuses do NOT have Rights
Attributing rights to an embryo/fetus is ridiculous from the start. Here's why.
Roe is as Good as Dead
We are well on the way to a society in which women, upon conception, become nothing more than vessels for the unborn.
How Are We Going to Pay for This?
First, there's plenty of money for everyone to get the benefits that they want. There's absolutely no need to have debates about raising taxes, deficits or MMT. All such arguments are distractions. If we want to pay for things like Medicare for All, Free College, or the Green New Deal, we need look no further than the coffers of the Transnational Corporate Class.
My Tour of the Victims of Modern Capitalism: Part I Haiti
American pundits often bend over backward to equate Venezuela to the perils of socialism. By that metric, Haiti should certainly be a warning to the world about the perils of capitalism.
So, About those Benjamins
there's a great deal to discuss and there's a great deal to learn about the United States' support for Israel and the associated political discourse. The issues are complicated. Twitter is really not the place for it.
The Green New Deal and the AOC’s of Conservative Mania
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her co-sponsors have done what environmental activists and justice workers have been trying to do for at least the twenty years that I've been involved in such issues. They have taken this audacious dream and turned it into a mainstream discussion.
Giving a Beep for Education?
HOW ABOUT GIVING YOUR VOTE!
Lecture 14: Sociology and the Nature vs. Nurture Debate
WHY SOCIOLOGISTS ARE ON TEAM NURTURE It's always interesting when questions of "human nature" arise during my sociology classes. For the most part, the sociologists reject the notion of an innate human "nature" independent of the social world. That's not to say that there are no such innate features to human behavior. They are just... Continue Reading →
