Whose Sacrifice
Today is Memorial Day in the US. Its origins lie at the end of the Civil War as a way of remembering soldiers who died in service from both the Union and Confederate forces. Since then, it has expanded...
View ArticleIndividualised Subjects
There is a trend in America — and likely elsewhere — to decontextualise events like the mass shooting last week by turning the perpetrator into a completely autonomous, loner, mentally disturbed,...
View ArticleSocial Capitalism
I’ve been thinking a lot about the opposition between ‘capitalism’ and ‘socialism’ which groups like the Tea Party reinforce. However, I am beginning to think this opposition is artificial in some...
View ArticleEducation for Profit
Open admissions sounds like a good thing. Who doesn’t want to enable people a chance to get a university education? However, this has two major flaws: most students are underprepared academically and,...
View ArticleHermeneutical Jujitsu
One of the intriguing aspects of Trayvon Martin’s death is the hermeneutics implicit in Zimmerman’s ‘self-defence’. For those unaware of the story, here is the oversimplified play-by-play: Trayvon...
View ArticleBecoming-person
For the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking about the politicised topic of abortion. More importantly, I was contemplating the idea of the person as a social construct. This is because, as some may...
View ArticleLabour Ethics
In this article, Brooke Crothers tries to argue that one should not have an ethical dilemma in purchasing products made by Apple. He is mostly speaking about the increasingly public investigations into...
View ArticleWealth creation
Adrian Rogers, a previously major figure in the Southern Baptist Convention, once said that ‘you cannot multiply wealth by dividing it’ as a way of critiquing socialism. However, such a statement is...
View ArticleCredit Money
This is a very short hypothesis I’ve been thinking about. Basically, money itself has no existence any more except as a measurement of debt and the means by which one is enslaved. While this may have...
View ArticleThe ‘Third Way’ of the Middle Class
For some time, I had been contemplating Adam Kotsko’s attitude towards ‘third way’ solutions (e.g. here). For the longest time, I have been a proponent of a ‘third way’ that would synthesise...
View ArticlePolitical Qualifications
With the recent memory lapse by Rick Perry fresh in people’s minds, one of the criticisms was that these debates and celebrity-style appearances proved which candidates were best qualified for the...
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