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Pop Politico: “Debt Nation”
When I was growing up, I remember my father used to keep a credit card hidden in the back of his closet. It was one of those “In case of emergency” things that he
Read More »Pop Politico: “Anti-Dowist Philosophy”
I don’t know if you remember the days when newscasters would routinely smile when the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day in positive numbers. It was a not-so-subtle sign that “The system is
Read More »Pop Politico: “War/Dance”
There’s a phrase made famous by Thomas Hobbes, used to great effect in Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, and that is: Homo homini lupus. That Latin phrase roughly translates to “Man is a
Read More »Pop Politico: “Three Cheers for the Free Market!”
Close of the market, 9/29/08 My political/economic socialization came during the heady days of free market zealotry. 1984 was a year when it seemed like many of my friends — who never cared for
Read More »Pop Politico: “Crisis Politics”
Between the Devil and the deep blue sea. Those are our options in dealing with this financial mess — or so it seems if you’ve been following events since the initial government bailout of
Read More »Pop Politico: “The Great Derangement”
If journalism is the first draft of history, and history is argument without end, then Matt Taibbi has fired the opening salvo of a new argument about the current political and religious culture in
Read More »Pop Politico: “Greetings from Economy Class”
The Bureau of Labor Statistics for July states that 5.7% of Americans are unemployed. Percentages are sometimes difficult to visualize, so how about this number: 8.8 million people are officially out of work. The
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