"Civilization is Repression."
Sigmund Freud said that “Civilization is repression.” It is important to know what he meant in the context of today's politics. ...
Letter in Washington Post
Lawrence H. Summers, in his July 3 op-ed, “Jobs for all? It’s not so simple.,” looked at a “federal job guarantee” from the wrong end of...
The Untold Story of Congressional Votes For and Against Medicare and Social Security
House Republicans voted 95 to 1 in April, 1935 to block the creation of Social Security. Those 95 GOP representatives were voting “to...
A Positive Program for the Democratic Party
Democrats need to put forward a positive program that appeals to all Americans and that does not generate the backlash inherent in...
Could the U.S. Grow as Fast as China? Of Course It Could.
The U.S. still has what Alexander Hamilton called “the adventurous spirit, which distinguishes the commercial character of America.”...
Republican Disdain for the White Working Class
An emerging lament of congressional Republicans, recently voiced by Carl Rove in the Wall Street Journal, is that President Trump’s awful...