Link to an article by John Patrick Leary:
Bonus links: “Flint: A Tale of Two Cities” and “A Pediatrician General Motors and the Flint Water Crisis” and “The Poisoning of Flint”
Links
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
Terry Carter – Will Those Who Led the Financial System Into Crisis Ever Face Charges?
Link to an article by Terry Carter:
“Will Those Who Led the Financial System Into Crisis Ever Face Charges?”
Walden Bello – Why Wall Street Won Round One and We Might Win the Next
Link to an article by Walden Bello:
Elaine Coburn – Economics as Ideology: Challenging Expert Political Power
William S. Burroughs – Thanksgiving Prayer
Link to the poem by William S. Burroughs:
Andrew Stewart – John Ford and the Politics of the Western
Link to an article by Andrew Stewart:
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.”
Pete Dolack – They Make Millions Per Employee and Cry They Don’t Make Enough
Link to an article by Pete Dolack:
“They Make Millions Per Employee and Cry They Don’t Make Enough”