Owners vs. Workers: An Eternal Law of Nature?


Thomas Storck A few years ago (November 2, 2013) The Economist magazine, that reliable organ of neo-liberalism that makes few bones about its idolization of material growth as the summum bonum of human existence and its consequent dismissal of anything, such as family life or cultural traditions, that might get in the way of such … More Owners vs. Workers: An Eternal Law of Nature?

The bogus, self-serving notion that poverty is simple


In a recent article for The Week, Jeff Spross makes a fair claim against the standard “conservative” rhetoric that the real solution to the problem of poverty is for those in poverty to start working. He also addresses the position of some conservatives who say that we can never truly address the issue of poverty … More The bogus, self-serving notion that poverty is simple