We hear all the time that our country is “deeply divided.” And in many ways that’s true; the Red/Blue split is growing—it begins in Washington DC but doesn’t end there. It’s hard to see how it will be resolved peacefully. Yet there is one thing that Washington agrees on: a neoconservative foreign policy. Whether it’s Hilary […]
Financial collapses are interesting and sometimes hilarious for those who observe them, but painful for those who suffer them. In addition to the economic discomfort or hardship they cause is the humiliation of having been fool enough to invest in what turns out to have been a giant and obvious fraud, having followed some preposterous […]
It’s not just the price of oil that matters: how much disposable income consumers have left to buy more goods and services matters, too. The Oil Curse (a.k.a. The Resource Curse) refers to the compelling ease of those blessed with an abundance of oil/resources to depend on that gift for the majority of state/national revenues. The risks […]
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) is a figure from our revolutionary past who emerged from obscurity to upset the world with his popular writings. “He wrote the three top-selling literary works of the eighteenth century, which inspired the American Revolution, issued a historic battle cry for individual rights, and challenged the corrupt power of government churches,”researcher Jim […]
An arm of the American Bar Association voted on Nov. 18 to end the longstanding requirement that prospective law students take the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) – a standardized test which gauges one’s logical reasoning skills, rather than a strictly knowledge-based test such as the SAT, GRE, and MCAT. The ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education […]
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false.”— CIA Director Bill Casey, 1981 Dear Friends Interlocutors, A major goal of Washington’s foreign policy, as evinced by its track record, is to immiserate certain countries which have been targeted for such treatment, targeted whether they deserve it or not. […]
Dave Chappelle is the black Lenny Bruce. I’m sure there are stronger encomiums than that, but right now I can’t think of any. Lenny Bruce is my favorite Jewish comedian, and Dave Chappelle is my most beloved black comic. And this is not because they are all that funny. Oh, yes, they are both way […]
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest. Samuel Johnson Ihave sometimes puzzled over that sentence—so portentously pronounced by perhaps the most earnest Englishman I can think of—and have asked myself why anyone would advise another to wait so long before becoming earnest. Shouldn’t we always be in earnest? Also, isn’t it a bit odd […]
FTX Theft Foreshadows WEF’s ‘You Will Own Nothing’ Promise The environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) credit system is an early phase of the new financial system envisioned by the WEF. Basically, your ESG score decides your company’s ability to obtain loans and investment opportunities, and in the future, the same “social conscience”-type scoring will […]
