Three and half decades ago a huckster with heavily-processed hair rose up and declared he would lead the nation into a new “morning in America.” Posing himself as a Washington “outsider,”
Vol.97.1: You Betcha!
I don’t run my life according to too many rules, which might have something to do with my first rule, which is Don’t have too many rules (perhaps I do
Vol.96.7: CRAPITALISM: ON THE PRIVATIZATION OF EVERYTHING
No wonder there has been such a furor over the ACA—it perhaps presages a full single-payer government health care system—one lucrative area that the private
Vol.96.4: Retired Thoughts on Labor Day (reprise of 67.6)
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My thoughts on life and work in America seem to have changed little since wrote this piece in the second year of the Obama administration. If anything, my disappointments are greater
Vol.83.4: THE KLEPTO KINGDOM, Part 1
With the USA/PRC détente in 1972 came the prospects for the huge Chinese market –-a huge pent up demand from the long deprivation from
Vol.75.6: “BACK IN THE DAY”; KODAK AND AMERICAN INDUSTRY
Kodaks (sic) sign photographed by author in Burg al Arab, Egypt. © 1991, UrbisMedia
Their corporate image was only slightly less ubiquitous than Coca-Cola’s, eye-catching crimson and yellow brand. Kodak. For people around the world it meant snapshots
Vol.75.5: AMERICA, INC.
Nothing quite exemplifies American corporatism as does the almost cartoonish CEO visage of Mitt Romney. A man of many mansions and $150 ties purchased by his questionably–gotten
Vol.75.3: THE GLOBAL MALL-AYSIA (KELANG, MALAYSIA)
The chariots of globalism; container ship in the Andaman Sea © 2011, UrbisMedia
“We go to Europe to be Americanized,” so said Ralph Waldo Emerson. The great transcendentalist might well have meant that we feel most American when we are in foreign
Vol.73.3: THE FORTUNE OF FORTUNE
I’ll begin with a personal anecdote. Back in 1979 I was on sabbatical in London. My project was to study a piece of the Labor Party’s legislation called the Community
Vol.72.5: CHRISTIANITY AND CAPITALISM: SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE [Revised]
Once, long ago, I considered going the way of St. Francis of Assisi or Ignatius Loyola, forsaking the trappings of a wealthy and privileged
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