In this segment, Wallace Shawn interviews Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at MIT and noted political dissident. Shawn posits that what humans really want is material comforts. Chomsky rebuts this assertion in a most rigorous and thought-provoking manner, with deep implications towards what the truly important values of our society are and should be.
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The Geodigraph Economy
The traditional capitalist economic system operates on the assumption that large projects are only achievable by building large, permanent corporate entities, which raise capital by selling shares to wealthy investors, who then expect large returns on their investments, making profit--and…
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Shared Plunder is Shared Responsibility
The United States of America, as an independent nation, was built around roughly three organizing principles: Economic freedom Private property Personal responsibility All of these ideas trace themselves back to Enlightenment philosophers such as John Locke. Many of the founding…
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Futile Compromise: Why Centrism is Bankrupting the Political Left
Joe Biden cannot win. Most Americans know that their political and economic institutions have failed them. Millennials, coming up in the era of the Great Recession, have borne the economic brunt of neoliberal policy failures, being saddled with colossal college…
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Reflection on Gender Roles
Note: This was originally written in 2014. It’s not my usual habit to veer off into highly personal stuff, but this has been chewing on me a bit. First off, I was mostly reared by women. My mother, grandmother, and…
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Crisis of Crystallization
It occurs to me that a great many people on the right side of the political spectrum place such great, blind faith in the free market’s ability to place all of us in our correct positions within the social hierarchy,…
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Morality: Policy or Ideology?
One can make a rather convincing argument, without stretching the bounds of credulity to any great extent, that the Democratic Party's stated policy goals are largely built on a loftier moral basis than those of its political rivals. Concern…
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