Us vs Them or Each Against All

More confused everyday. I thought “Woke” just meant to be aware of white supremacist policies and worldviews affecting society. Now Chris is telling me, no, it is bad. Some on the left seem to be defecting to the right (not Chris). I was all in for Harris and now….after listening to Thomas Frank I seemContinue reading “Us vs Them or Each Against All”

Fifty Trillion Dollars, Brick by Brick to Oligarchy

That is how much money has been transferred from the bottom 90 percent to the top 1 percent over the last half a century. What happened a half century ago? Then end of New Deal imbedded liberalism and the rise of neoliberal Market Fundamentalism. The Reagan Revolution. This has brought us three people having moreContinue reading “Fifty Trillion Dollars, Brick by Brick to Oligarchy”

The End Of The Story

Abridged Transcript, On Point (my favorite Public Radio Show)Part I MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: Ruth Ben-Ghiat is back with us today. She’s a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University. She writes a Substack newsletter on threats to democracy called Lucid, and she’s author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. And throughout this year,Continue reading “The End Of The Story”