as straight of a conceptual line as there can be In Two Treatises of Government (1689) John Locke (English philosopher, 1632 - 1704) made two points pertinent to this modest little essay, one still completely valid and the other not so much. The still-valid point he made is that injustice…

we must ACT to ensure that Liberty under the Rule of Law and Democracy will live on [I listened last night to several renditions of “La Marseillaise” and “L’Internationale.” I highly recommend it.] Liberalism* is perishing. From without and from within, the forces that would destroy it are growing bigger and stronger. Both those who detest it and those who seek to totalize some narrow interpretation of…

There would be no need for hoarding. Only food and air are as vital to human life as water is. Yet, we do not hoard water. We don’t seek to cling with dear life to every drop of it that comes our way. To be sure, we are learning on…

What are your priorities? For me, unemployment, poverty, and sustainability are the primary issues regarding the outcomes for society of the existing economic system. …

as the bulwark of the economy [Please bear with me; much ground must be covered.] The economy is the process of producing and acquiring goods and services. The economic system is the set of institutions through which that process proceeds. With only a few scattered exceptions, such as North Korea…

The latter can exist without the former. People have very different definitions, much less conceptions, much less perceptions regarding ‘capitalism’. Both its proponents and its opponents tend to conflate capitalism with ‘free markets’. ‘Free-market capitalism’ is, as I see it, about as inaccurate as a term can be. “Free-market” implies…

Richard Dien Winfield’s analytical paradigm in Reason and Justice and its implications for ‘real justice’ Far and away, the best example of philosophical writing I have ever read is Reason and Justice, by Richard Dien Winfield. There is not one analogy or metaphor in it. There is not one unnecessary…

a solution or a delusion I am convinced that I have developed a solution for economic woes that have bedeviled not only ‘capitalism’, but civilization itself from day one to the present: unemployment and poverty. It eliminates both of those (for adult citizens of the nation — any nation) while…

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