"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Cultural issues are concerned with our relations and duties to each other. They include questions on ethics, morality, and mores.
Gini Index World Map in 2014, income inequality by country according to World Bank Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/M Tracy Hunter One of progressives’ favorite conversations is about income inequality, particularly … Read More
Views that fuel Donald Trump’s Campaign Image Credit: Flickr.com/Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com The political reactions working in favor of Donald Trump, or for that matter, Bernie Sanders have been a long time … Read More
Storm Clouds of Socialism (c) Can Stock Photo / leedsn This essay is a continuation of my previous … Read More
Standard Oil stock certificate from 1896 – A share of wealth Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Rjensen at English Wikipedia This is the fourth essay in a series of posts on the … Read More
Claim checks on wealth. Image Credit: Freeimages.com/Jon Syverson This is the third part of a series of posts on the effects of Capitalism on the culture of … Read More
Economic Temptation: Is this the danger posed by capitalism? (c) Can Stock Photo I will now continue the discussion of how desirable capitalism is as an economic system in our … Read More
Greed – Is this all there is with capitalism? (c) Can Stock Photo This essay has been inspired by notions concerning capitalism I have heard or read from a number … Read More
Adam Smith, the builder of a majestic Gothic cathedral of economic thought. by John Kay (1742-1826)/Library of Congress (PD-1996) This is the second of two posts on the applicability of … Read More
Organization of a feedback loop Wikimedia Commons/Brews ohare – Own work My friend Chease has again proposed I consider a very interesting article concerning Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand”. Last August … Read More
Idols of Capitalism in front of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Germany, a high temple of Capitalism Wikimedia Commons/Eva K. Since we looked at the various meanings people give to the … Read More
Lamartine, before the Hotel de Ville, Paris rejects the red flag of revolution and socialism on Feb. 25, 1848. By Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux , Public Domain Late yesterday, while … Read More
Coalition air strike on ISIS positions in Kobani, Northern Syria, October 2014 Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Voice of America Schuyler Moore has just published a very interesting idea about ISIS in … Read More
The problem space: a system with chaotic boundaries Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Eequor In Central Planning for Chaotic Social Systems I discussed how social systems, particularly economic systems, are really chaotic … Read More
Tea Party Protest, Washington D.C. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Freedom Fan In my last post I commented on Peter Beinart’s confident prediction that America would follow the … Read More
Tomb of Karl Marx Photo Credit: Flickr.com/Matt From London These troubled times see Americans traveling in sharply different ideological directions. At least partially isolated from each other … Read More
Ever since President Woodrow Wilson, progressives in the United States have expressed varying degrees of disrespect for the U.S. Constitution, and have chafed over its limitations on the implementation of … Read More
Is this how we should view expert scientists? Image Credit: morgueFile.com/Grafixar This post is a reply to the comments of my friend, whom I will call “Cheese” because of … Read More
Black flag of ISIS Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham) has just reminded us in … Read More
William Magear “Boss” Tweed Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons (PD-US-unpublished) William Magear “Boss” Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878) was a notorious Democratic politician of … Read More
All a capitalist cares about? Photo Credit: Freeimages.com/Fernando Mengoni There are many such as Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Bill Gates, … Read More
Photo Credit: CanStockPhoto.com/dundanim What is it about conservatives that makes at least some progressives want to incarcerate them and otherwise remove them from any influence on society? I can understand … Read More
I have frequently referred to the autocratic instincts of the American “progressive”. It is such a fascinating characteristic of progressives given their self-picture of themselves as the epitome of tolerance, … Read More
Anti-war demonstration in Berkeley, CA Photo Credit: Flickr.com/celesteh When I was a child growing up in the 1950s, I absorbed what at the time felt like … Read More
The most fundamental ideological division between progressives and conservatives concerns their beliefs on the proper functions of government. What roles do we think should be given to government and what … Read More
Almost nothing divides the political Left from the Right more than their mutually exclusive views of wealth. Listen to President Obama, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, or Senator Bernie Sanders … Read More
I have just found a wonderful place on the internet at Quora.com for carrying on dialogues on serious subjects. Readers of this website will recall that inspiring such conversations was … Read More
Cole and Suzanne, this post is for you. How is an ideology formed and what makes us accept its contents as statements about Reality with a capital R? Recently friends of … Read More
I love the Disqus community! Disqus (it is pronounced “discuss”) is a community of people on the internet (URL: https://disqus.com) who want to comment on everything under the sun. Actually … Read More
These two questions might seem rather strange, coming from a citizen of the United States. Yet I have been alarmed by a number of blog posts from people on the political Left … Read More
