by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 9, 2020 | • Politics, On Liberalism
Centrists Are Pining for a Golden Age that Never Was Review of Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends by Anne Applebaum (Allen Lane, 2020). For Anne Applebaum, whose work on Soviet-era history is so respected it landed her the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 18, 2020 | • Politics, Capitalism, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs, On Liberalism
This arguably one of the very best explanations I have heard for what is Neoliberalism. Economist Mary Wrenn provides an easy to understand definition of what Neoliberalism is:— “Neoliberalism is an ideology that guides a lot of economic policymaking and has done so...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 19, 2019 | • Politics
How Neoliberal Thinkers Spawned Monsters They Never Imagined Political theorist Wendy Brown’s latest book, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West , traces the intellectual roots of neoliberalism and reveals how an...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 6, 2017 | • Politics
Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism Is Destroying Our Democracy NC: Well, a brief summary I think is if you take a look at recent history since the Second World War, something really remarkable has happened. First, human intelligence created two huge sledgehammers capable of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 6, 2016 | • Politics, Democracy
It was the Democrats’ embrace of neoliberalism that won it for Trump | Naomi Klein They will blame James Comey and the FBI. They will blame voter suppression and racism. They will blame Bernie or bust and misogyny. They will blame third parties and independent...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 28, 2016 | • Politics, Hillary Clinton, The Democrats
While I may disagree slightly with “how the Clinton’s will be remembered” I find this article to be one of the better forensic looks at what happened to the Democrats this past election. The Clintons’ Dominance of Democratic Politics Is...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 28, 2016 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy
From Three Minute Theory (on Facebook)