‘Profit,’ says the same Chalmers, ‘has the effect of attaching the services of the disposable population to other masters, besides the mere ...

The central role of economic sanctions in the US/EU strategy against Russia has returned international political economy to center stage, if...

In the introduction to One-Dimensional Man , Herbert Marcuse listed four authors -- Vance Packard, C. Wright Mills, William H. White, and Fr...

I’ve had dreams of all sorts from time to time, but I don’t remember them too well. There was one dream that had a sort of philosophical con...

 The original sin of the current catastrophe in Ukraine was the failure of the US and UK to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity...

 There are reports that many Russian soldiers are lacking in morale for the invasion of Ukraine. They were told repeatedly like the rest of ...

In  Herbert Marcuse and Planned Obsolescence  I undertook to develop a theoretical foundation for 'planned obsolescence' from Georg ...

Russian President Vladimir V. Putin has just announced a "special military operation" to "de-Nazify the Ukrainian government...

 Oh, I cannot resist taking that phrase from a recent Economist  article about the separatist Donbass republics, the Luhansk Peoples' Re...

"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and everybody who can read without moving his lips should know it by now. We make ...

 On the one hand Russian media is telling Russians that Russian troops will leave Belarus when exercises there end on Feb., 20, coinciding w...

 Yes, signs regarding a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine have gotten much worse in the last few days. I am hearing from my wife that Rus...

 In this Sunday's Washington Post, columnist David von Drehle suggests that a way out of the difficult Russia/Ukraine situation would be...

I am finding it difficult to proceed with writing about free time because I am not having enough opportunity to talk out these questions wit...

 I shall be having a parathyroid removed tomorrow at University of Virginia hospital. Will be going over this evening to avoid freezing fog....