My Children Will Be Better Off Than Me – a series on American values
A cherished part of our national culture has long been the belief that parents can improve their children’s future through better education, hard work, and […]
Insecurities
Pervasive Anonymity Is a Significant Threat
recent ICE masking is the tip of the iceberg of this destructive practice The appearance of various masked Federal agents seizing people on the street […]
A Poem for This Day Before the Self-Inflicted Famine
from an acquaintance in my old hometown I follow David Olivencia’s occasional comments about life on his blog Letters from a Postman. This one caught […]
Abundance by Klein and Thompson – a book review
I read Abundance as part of my participation in the Hudson Area Library’s Nonfiction Book Group. Abundance offers many telling comments about our situation. In […]
David Brooks on nurturing human capital in poor people
What might he say about our billionaire class “As a society, we are pretty good at transferring money to the poor, but we’re not very […]
Food Deserts from 99% Invisible
a great introduction to the monopolization of the US economy A key phenomenon of the past fifty years has been the explosion in the monopoly […]
A Plugged Up Kitchen Sink and Insecurity in American Life
A tale of almost $400 Our kitchen sink stopped draining the other day. My amateur snaking did nothing. Today, a plumber arrived with a […]
Insecurities for the Bottom 90% of the US Population – part 5 – Education
Education Education has long been a central American value and seen as a key to improving one’s position in life. Parents struggle to find and […]
Insecurities for the Bottom 90% of the US Population – part 4 – Food
This is part of the series on the insecurities produced by American capitalism for most Americans. Food Food Insecurity The US Dept. of Agriculture reports […]
The Need for Class Warfare
The media, including here at Substack, has been filled with bleatings about the Democratic Party’s whipping at the hands of Trump and his billionaires. There […]