The Great Inequality

Bernie Sanders’ “Political Revolution”

Bernie Sanders has staked his campaign for the presidency on public disgust and anger over the unconscionable and rapidly growing gap between the richest Americans and most everyone else. He rails against the “billionaire class,”…

Geraldine

Karen looked up from her computer, on which she had been reading newspapers from places where we have lived, and said, “Geraldine died.” I was lying in a hostel bed, relaxing after a ten-mile hike…

Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco

Sacco and Vanzetti*

Today is the 87th anniversary of the state-sponsored murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. What follows is a film review and essay that I wrote a few years ago. I think you will find it interesting.…

Home Sweet Home

 A recent article by New York Times journalist Neil Irwin finds that the housing market is still operating as a drag on the economy. While a few markets like New York City and San Francisco…

Markets Are the Problem (Not the Solution)**

A recent op-ed in the New York Times described the construction of "the mother of all luxury property developments," on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, complete with branches of famous museums and a university. We…

Teaching Workers

 Karl Marx’s famous dictum sums up my teaching philosophy: “The philosophers of the world have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” As I came to see it, Marx…