Id quod religat – “That which binds together.”
2035 – Democratic Dystopia?
[Outside an Elementary School, a reporter prepares for a live feed on the local television station.] “Good morning. This is Chip Mason, reporting to you live outside Trump Elementary School For Language and Arts, here in Calhoun, Georgia. This morning I have the unique opportunity to attend an actual class of Fourth Graders who are…
BOOK REVIEW: HYPERPOLITICS, By Anton Jäger
“Collective life had to be thinned out to clear new inroads for the market.” That “thinning out” has destroyed civil society. I am beginning this review with my favorite quote from the book because I think it encapsulates the character of capitalism and is a pithy description of how we came to our current state…
Book Review: communion, The Female Search for Love
By bell hooks Like many, I purchased bell hooks’ book after learning that J.D. Vance also titled his new book “Communion.” Seems both books made it to the New York Times’ best seller list this year. I know bell hooks’ book surged due to a grass roots campaign. I am curious to find out the…
DRAFT RESIDENT EMPOWERMENT AND BOARD TRAINING OUTLINE Harry DeRienzo
Prologue: We are dying as a society, a society supposedly organized around the principles of liberalism and human dignity. But liberalism has been corrupted, such that freedom is reserved for those who can afford it. For the rest of us, freedom only exists as whatever is left after we are forced to accept all the…
MAGA is a Ruse
Merriam Webster: Ruse, a trick or act that is used to fool someone. Is MAGA a movement or an elaborate subterfuge? I was listening to a cable news show earlier today and heard something I have heard many times by analysts and elected officials since 2025 – “Trump is not paying enough attention to the…
BOOK REVIEW: TECHNOFEUDALISM, What Killed Capitalism
By Yanis Varoufakis If you own a bookstore, where would you place this book? Logically, it would seem the book belongs in the Political Science or Economics section. However, if you decided to locate it in the Horror section, you would have justification for doing so. In the days before the dawn of capitalism, feudal…
BOOK REVIEW: THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE, AND THE RACIAL STATE
By Emmaia Gelman This is a difficult book to review in a comprehensive manner, most likely due to the complex nature and history of its subject matter. This book is exhaustively researched and provides the reader with an analysis of the ADL, which over time has transformed from an ambivalent special interest group to a…
BOOK REVIEW: 1929, Inside the Greatest crash in Wall Street History – And How It Shattered A Nation By Andrew Ross Sorkin
I have intended for some time to read this book. Reading it, I could not help but consider parallels between now and the 1920s. We have experienced tariffs in this second term of Donald Trump, and tariffs played a significant role leading up to the Great Depression. The United States, after the First World War,…
BOOK REVIEW: LIAR”S KINGDOM, HOW TO STOP TRUMP’S DECEIT AND SAVE AMERICA
BY ANDREW WEISSMANN This book provides and assessment of, and recommendations for how to stop one aspect of the unrelenting privatization of public benefits. For those who watch Cable News, specifically MSNOW, Weissmann’s name, qualifications, and approach to a topic will be familiar in reading this book. As deliberate, thoughtful, and understated as he is…
BOOK REVIEW: AFTER THE FALL, FROM THE END OF HISTORY TO THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY, HOW POLITIICANS BROKE OUR WORLD
By Ian Shapiro If you are a student of political economy, or interested in politics, public policy, international relations or history, this is an excellent read. Shapiro has put together an excellent, concise, and readable history of the past, nearly half-century neo-liberal consensus, which has been and continues to tear apart the social fabric of…
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