August 22, 2021 “The pedagogic task of the [Truth and Reconciliation] Commission then is not that it has offered new information, but that it has made perpetrators as well as survivors become part of the formation of knowledge through which it may
June 9, 2020 The Atlantic Daily : America’s Fault Lines Are Showing “CLASS The coronavirus could create a new working class. Not everyone can just work from home: Data suggest that benefit lies disproportionately with high-income Americans. A
May 26, 2020 “‘ We have met the enemy, and he is us ’ Pogo said it about litterers in 1971, but the comic-strip possum might have been reading the minds of many Americans of today. As the nation starts to reopen, what really worries them, perhaps
Feb. 28, 2020 ALL OF US OF SOUND MIND . . . really care deeply about only one reality in our lives, our own individual health and the health of our loved ones. We want everyone close to us to live a long and healthy life. But if we are truly of
February 21, 2020 IN A CARING COMMUNITY, people think about the future. What kind of society, they wonder and worry, will we leave our children and their children? Greed, by contrast, knows no tomorrow. Accumulate. Consume. Toss. Disregard the co
November 30, 2019 CLOSE, WARM, CARING RELATIONSHIPS, the evidence suggests, are seldom sustained in communities where differences in income and wealth keep people far apart. Inequality stretches the bonds of friendship and caring that keep people
November 24, 2019 Neighborhoods, Juliet Schor notes, generally bring together households of comparable incomes. If you compare yourself to your neighbors down the street, as Americans typically did back in the 1950s and 1960s, you’re comparing your
November 16, 2019 LITTLE TO CELEBRATE? What about all those statistics? The rising family incomes. The millions of new jobs. The record homeownership rates. The overflowing mutual funds. Economists had never seen such numbers. Average Americans, th
November 1, 2019 The aim of the project as a whole is to provide the philosophical underpinning for an account of basic constitutional principles that should be respects and implemented by the governments of all nations, as a bare minimum of what r
October 27, 2019 Champions of better and wider health care services, they note, have exerted enormous energy over recent years to extend access to affordable, quality care. Yet more, not fewer, Americans now go without health care services. This sh
October 18, 2019 WEAVERS CAN ALMOST ALWAYS DISTINGUISH, without much difficulty, quality from second-rate fabric. Quality fabrics will typically be tightly knit. You can tug and twist them. They will not tear. In our everyday speech, we talk about
October 11, 2019 ADVOCATES FOR A MORE EQUITABLE AMERICA, a century ago, saw their campaign for social justice as essentially a two-front struggle. A good and honorable republic would emerge, these advocates believed, if more wealth accumulated at
Oct. 6th, 2019 THE END OF WORLD WAR I, in November 1918, would also end America’s first great offensive against plutocracy. By 1920, in fact, apprehensions about “plutocracy” had almost totally vanished from mainstream political discourse. A new v
Sept. 29, 2019 But inequality, Vilas argues, creates a danger to democracy that goes far deeper than power imbalances. Democracies, he points out, require citizens. And inequality, most poisonously of all, undermines citizenship. To be a citizen,
Sept. 20, 2019 WE CANNOT, CONCLUDES HERMAN DALY, “grow” forever. Current human economic activity is already preempting one-fourth of what scientists call “the global net primary product of photosynthesis.”50 This economic activity cannot possibly b
Sept. 14, 2019 “ON APRIL 27, 1942, only months after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt presented to Congress a proposal to limit the income of any one American. At a time of ‘grave national danger,’ the President advised, ‘no American c
Sept. 8, 2019 “AVERAGE AMERICANS, IN 1913, WOULD HAVE MUCH PREFERRED a considerably higher tax rate on wealthy incomes. Most Americans, by that year, had become acutely aware of the inequality all around them. Great strikes in the urban centers of
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