Here's an excerpt from New Politics for the Next Economy - a work in progress. Immigration Through the Lens of the Five Economies T...

Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:13, "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." Wha...

Trump is signaling he wants a Fed chair who will cut rates much faster - he’s said policy should be “two or three points lower,” which would...

Amerigo Dumini was Mussolini’s thug-in-chief - he helped murder a socialist who spoke out against the Duce, later fought through the chaos o...

Donald Trump is the oldest person in the history of the US to have ever been sworn in as president. Yesterday, after his absurdly and predic...

Silicon Valley isn’t just paying the highest wages in the country - it’s doing it at a pace only two other places can match: King County (ho...

“This blustering revel of tariffs and travel bans makes us mocked by other nations; they call us boors and bullies, and the good we once sto...

Ran across this term in a chapter on the third sexual revolution in Christian Smith's fascinating Why Religion Went Obsolete: the Demise...

Democracy [1949] by Langston Hughes Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right As t...

In the Industrial Economy, value was created in steel mills and assembly lines. In the Information Economy, it is often created in studios a...

David Bromwich of Yale argues that totalitarianism is partly about denying the inherent contradictions in the world, as much a quest for wor...

After World War II, Hannah Arendt set out to understand how totalitarianism could take root in modern societies. In *The Origins of Totalita...