I’ve enjoyed many Clint Eastwood movies and consider him an excellent director and storyteller. That’s why I’m so disappointed with what he did in his latest movie about Richard Jewell. Movies based on true events are not documentaries and often embellish, omit, synthesize or otherwise distort details, sometimes for dramatic effect, sometimes for time’s sake […]
In Saving Capitalism, author Robert Reich explores the myth of the “free market” and shows how it has been shaped by the wealthy and powerful to benefit themselves and increase income and wealth inequality. What we think of as the “market” is defined by the many rules governing property rights, corporations, bankruptcy, patents and trademarks,
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With How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, author Jason Stanley reminds us that any society is susceptible to fascist influences. Societies with widespread economic insecurity, such as today’s United States and much of Europe, are especially vulnerable to fascism. Stanley describes how fascism gains a foothold on power and entrenches itself in everyday
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The Republican and Democratic parties are not equally responsible for the state of today’s politics, as Bill Maher explains in this video clip. He references a 2012 article by Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann, but they actually wrote an entire book about it: It’s Even Worse Than It Looks. I highly recommend it. Eschew false equivalencies.
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I highly recommend the book The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower by Robert Baer. It turns on its head the conventional wisdom about Iran and how we should deal with it. The author spends the first two-thirds of the book showing how Iran is increasing its power and influence, in large