April 2024

Contrary to the NYT, Mortgage Rates are Unlikely to Stay Where They Are

Embassies as Targets: Dangerous Diplomatic Precedents

No Such Thing as Frequent Fire in Sagebrush Ecosystems

Property and Debt in Ancient Rome

Israel’s Blowback Genocide

Oppenheimer, the Sequel

Suspending the Rule of Tolerable Violence: Israel’s Attack and Iran’s Retaliation

Ecuador is Not For Sale

Letter from London: Letters from Everywhere

Beyond Self-Extinction

War and Plunder in Eastern Congo

Debating the Slaughter: a Historical Retrofitting

Americans Want Germany’s Weed Laws

Iran and the US Say Enough, Will Israel Go Along?

“British Justice”? Hundreds of Subpostmasters Ask, What’s That?

Mass Layoffs Have Our Rich Thriving … and Workers Writhing

Zombie Tests: Is the SAT Back From the Dead?

Statement by University of Southern California Student Asna Tabassum, Class of 2024 Valedictorian

The March CPI, the Inflation Picture, and the Fed

The Israel-Iran Confrontation: Episode or War?

Sage Grouse “Collaborative Conservation Effort” is an On-Going Disaster

How American Policing Became So Violent

What We Owe the Greek

Sam Randazzo is Dead and So is Nuclear Power

Secret Agreements: The Australian-Israel Defense Memorandum of Understanding

False Equivalency and Lack of Proportionality in the Gaza War

Netanyahu Bolstered Hamas

The Death of Paris ‘15

Where Did Vladimir Putin’s Dream Of a ‘Russian World’ Come From?

Choosing Regular Food to Extend Longevity

A Speculation About Biden, Trump, Israel, the USA and Gaza Politics

Shadow War No More: Hostilities Between Israel and Iran Have Strayed into Direct Warfare…Is There Any Going Back?

The Backlash Against DEI in Business is in Full Force…and Full of Myths

Roe v. Wade: Reasoned v. the Right

Civil War, Alex Garland’s Gripping War Between the Cinematic States

Overhyping a US-China “AI Arms Race”

Intolerable Cruelty

A Class Analysis of the Trump-Biden Rerun

Of a Fire on the Mound: Racism, Baseball Capitalism and the Game’s Greatest Pitcher, Bob Gibson

NATO Comes to Switzerland, Goodbye Neutrality?

Brazil, What Now? A Thread in the Labyrinth

Three Theses on Zionism

In Defense of Saint Martin’s University’s Liberal Arts Faculty and Program

Uncharted Territory Dead Ahead

We Need Housing, Not Hand Cuffs

Destroy Hamas? No, End the Gaza War and Begin the Peace Process!

Last Year, You Spent More Than a Month’s Rent on Pentagon Contractors

Could BRICS Open Its Arms to Serbia?

The U.S. Minimum Wage Level is Outrageous 

Billionaires are Bad for the Economy, Taxing Them is Good for It