“The exceedingly comfortable souls who make up the richest .01 percent of Americans today only total about 32,000, a cohort too small to fill a standard Big League ballpark. But if these wealthy were to launch their own country, that new creation would rate as the eighth-wealthiest nation in the entire world”. (The Inequality Nerd, …
On July 31st I posted a notice about my short paper called “Epicurus and politics: why I think he was wrong”. Regular reader Owen Bell, a student of History and Politics at Exeter University, England, has written back in reply. I think what he has to say is thoughtful and well-informed and deserves to be …
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Per capita the US employs more prison guards than any other country per capita, and 35% fewer policemen. No place in the world imprisons people at a higher rate than the state of Louisiana. And that incarceration pays handsomely for the profiteers who run the state’s private prisons. For the incarcerated it is a totally …
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Under the heading of Epicureanism Articles in the side panel of this blog page (either on the right or beneath, depending on your device) you will see a heading entitled: “Added July 2016: Epicurus and Politics: why I think he was wrong” Some years ago a university professor who taught philosophy referred to this blog …
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“We’re far too polite in this country. We talk of immigrants having a duty to integrate into society, but are too embarrassed to insist that they learn English, the essential prerequisite of integration. Instead, our public bodies go out of their way to provide expensive translation services. Last year, Crawley Borough Council spent £1,000 translating …
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