Herbert Deyer, Jr. – The First Demand for Slave Reparations

Link to an article by Herbert Deyer, Jr.:

“The First Demand for Slave Reparations”

Bonus Link: “Statement to the Media by the United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, on the Conclusion of Its Official Visit to USA, 19-29 January 2016” (“The colonial history, the legacy of enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism, and racial inequality in the US remains a serious challenge as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent.“)

Tony Bates – Book Review: The Future of the Professions

Link to a review by Tony Bates of The Future of the Professions:  How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts (2015) by Richard and Daniel Susskind:

“Book Review: The Future of the Professions (Including Teaching)”

Bonus links: Forces of Production and “Edutopia” and Homo academicus and Making Money

Elaine Coburn – Economics as Ideology: Challenging Expert Political Power

Link to an article by Elaine Coburn:

“Economics as Ideology: Challenging Expert Political Power”

Bonus Links: Economists and the Powerful and The Social Structures of the Economy and “Darwin and the Body Politic: Schäffle, Veblen, and the Shift of Biological Metaphor in Economics”

Jeffrey St. Clair & James Ridgeway – Articles on New West Vigilantes

Links to articles by Jeffrey St. Clair & James Ridgeway:

“On the Firing Line: Bullies in Stetsons”

“The War to Claim the New West”

Bonus Links: “Cattle, Guns, Birds and Boredom: Inside the Oregon Occupation” and  “9th Circuit Blasts Judge Who Ruled for Rancher”

Slavoj Žižek – The Cologne Attacks Were an Obscene Version of Carnival

Link to an article by Slavoj Žižek:

“The Cologne Attacks Were an Obscene Version of Carnival”

Selected quotes:

  • “being a victim at the bottom of the social ladder does not make you some kind of privileged voice of morality and justice.”
  • “This destructive potential of envy is the base of Rousseau’s well-known distinction between egotism, amour-de-soi (that love of the self which is natural), and amour-propre, the perverted preferring of oneself to others in which a person focuses not on achieving a goal, but on destroying the obstacle to it [quoting Rousseau, juge de Jean-Jacques, first dialog] . . . An evil person is thus not an egotist, ‘thinking only about his own interests’. A true egotist is too busy taking care of his own good to have time to cause misfortune to others. The primary vice of a bad person is that he is more preoccupied with others than with himself.”
  • “The difficult lesson of this entire affair is thus that it is not enough to simply give voice to the underdogs the way they are: in order to enact actual emancipation, they have to be educated (by others and by themselves) into their freedom.”