Two Fictions of Mainstream Economics

by JACK RASMUS Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Mainstream economics consistently fails to predict the future. I’m talking about those ‘schools’ of mis-thought, ranging from Paul Krugman on the ‘left’ to Glenn Hubbard and other apologists […]

The Virtues of Not Eating Animals

by EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Growing up in a village I was born in a Greek village where land and food self-sufficiency were everything. My father had a few strips of land where […]

How Obama Could Find Some Redemption

by PAUL STREET Photograph Source: jamesomalley – CC BY 2.0 History, literature, film, and scripture are loaded with stories and examples of redemption. Buddhism gives us the story of Aṅgulimāla, a pathological mass-murderer who became a follower […]

Trump’s War on Arms Control and Disarmament

by MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: ZhengZhou – CC BY-SA 3.0 A successor to the Trump administration will have to rebuild the credibility of the Department of Justice and the effectiveness of such regulatory agencies as the Environmental […]