Permitting the fox to police the chicken coop has not resulted in a significant increase in the production of eggs, but it has scrambled the once vaunted American Dream, fried our impulse to help each other and poached our collective brain.
We’ve tried a quarter century of free-market, trickle-down sleight of hand. It has done more [...]
(This is the transcript of Hot Copy No. 40, Del Marbrook’s regular podcasts for The Student Operated Press)
The most frustrating aspect of journalism is its daily failure to challenge society’s assumptions.
When television reporters say General Motors or Ford have decided to downsize, they say something like, “Heavily unionized General Motors announced a plan to downsize [...]
How is it that the nation that rescued the world from fascist thugs and kept the red wolf at bay is now regarded in Europe as a rogue nation, the most dangerous and reckless nation in the world?
How is it that while we demonize North Korea, Iran and Venezuela, the Europeans tell pollsters we [...]
I have another entry for the Lost Story Department. Where does the Christian Right stand on Objectivism? Where does it stand on Ayn Rand’s idea of enlightened selfishness? (Now there’s a tortured term). It seems only fair to ask, because the Bush Administration, a slavish disciple of Randian theory, draws its most ardent support from [...]
Read More... Can we really be as religious a nation as we’re cracked up to be? Or are we sound-bite religious? Just asking.
There’s a question the politicians don’t have the fortitude to ask. I don’t think the preachers do either. What kind of a society are we willing to pay for?
Caring for the other guy doesn’t [...]