‘Have You No Sense Of Decency?’ McCarthyism Returns To Campus – OpEd
The recent Congressional hearings leading to a bloodbath of university presidents brings back memories from my teen-age years in the
Read moreThe recent Congressional hearings leading to a bloodbath of university presidents brings back memories from my teen-age years in the
Read moreThe Roman concept of property is essentially creditor-oriented. As Rome’s power grew, practices quickly became predatory. Traditional societies usually had
Read moreAlthough the Magna Carta typically is depicted as the birth of England’s fight to create democracy, the 13th-century struggle was
Read moreWhether in the realms of trade or agriculture, the operative principle was that debtors should not lose their economic liberty
Read moreIf the prophets of ancient Israel such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Malachi and Amos were alive today, Benjamin Netanyahu would
Read moreThis year’s annual IMF/World Bank meetings in Morocco are the most explicitly confrontational yet by US/NATO diplomacy toward China and
Read moreVested interests create “checks and balances” primarily to make political systems non-responsive to demands for social reform. Historically, therefore, the
Read moreHerodotus (History, Book 1.53) tells the story of Croesus, king of Lydia c. 585-546 BC in what is now Western
Read moreThe crashes of Silvergate, Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and the related bank insolvencies are much more serious than the
Read moreThe collapses of Silvergate and Silicon Valley Bank are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy
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