I am not sure how many readers here know who Gene Weingarten is.  He is a humorist who has authored a column for the last 21 years that has...

It looks like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is bungling the matter of raising (or suspending) the debt ceiling, coming due in mid-October suppos...

 Yes, a wonderful innovation!!!  No, I had not heard of this before, although maybe somebody reading this had encountered it.  So, where is ...

 Even though these "audits" are now apparently spreading to other states, notably Pennsylvania and maybe Wisconsin, efforts to som...

 Aka "Bill" McGuire.  He started at the same time as I did in Fall 1977 as a tenure track Assistant Professor where I still am, Ja...

 Of course there should be no debt ceiling.  The US is the only nation to have one for absolute amounts of money (some other nations have on...

Carlos Joly, a finance-and-climate consultant, has a piece today on the upcoming election in Norway , one of the world’s major exporters of ...

Back in 1979 philosopher Jean-François Lyotard was commissioned to do a report for the province of Quebec that turned into a book, The Postm...

 Over this past weekend I was in Portland visiting for the first time family who gathered for a reunion, with my second daughter, Caitlin, w...

  "The Ambivalence of Disposable Time: The Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties At Two Hundred" Tom Walker, Contribution...

When a framing becomes ubiquitous you forget it’s a framing.  This is what popped into my head when I read a headline this morning about t...

The world is made up of systems.  Our body is a system, or in fact a system of systems.  What we call “society” is another system of systems...

 Probably not, but recent events in Afghanistan suggest an example.  This would be the sudden departure just over two weeks ago on Aug. 15 f...

The draft "Chapter Six" was preceded by an earlier version of the analysis of formal and real subsumption of labour under capital....

I thought this was going to be the final installment of my review of Marx's writing on socially necessary labour time but then I discove...