Don’t Pepper-Spray Our Dreams
New York Times reporter Ginia Bellafante has totally missed the mark in her coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Where I see a vibrant grassroots movement unfolding organically, she sees a...
View ArticleRuminating on the demand for “demands”: Protesters, stay on target!
This morning we were discussing Nietzsche in my Seminar class at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and I asked the students to think about Nietzsche’s advice to his readers in the preface to The Genealogy...
View Article1% > 99%: Don’t Mess with the Rich, and Leave Inequality Alone
Why does it not surprise me that no comments were allowed on this op-ed piece from Sunday’s NY Times, which has been rankling at me for the past couple of days? The authors, one a prof of law at Yale,...
View ArticleWhich Side Are You On?
So here we sit on the eve of May Day 2012, and there is an eerie calm-before-the-storm kind of feeling. The mainstream media is still doing its best to pretend that nothing out of the ordinary is going...
View ArticleI Have a Dream…on MLK Day 2017
Let’s face it, we’ve been sleep-walking for a long, long time, trapped in a trance that forced us to do the bidding of the elites. Enough of that. Time to wake up now.
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