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Rousseau and Freedom: A Renewed Social Contract

Posted on August 1, 2024 by greg

A new social contract is not about higher taxes, more redistribution, and a bigger welfare state. It is about fundamentally reordering and equalizing how opportunity and security are distributed across society. Continue reading →

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Responding to a Society Controlled and Manipulated by Lies

Posted on June 1, 2024 by greg

Self-deception can fool us into believing our own lies – and allows us to be more confident in what we are saying, which makes us more persuasive. Continue reading →

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Understanding the Existential Threat of a Cult

Posted on October 14, 2023 by greg

An existential threat, put simply, is a threat to society – a veritable threat to existence does not have to be present for someone to experience a sense of existential threat. Trump draws fervent support from conservatives who believe the … Continue reading →

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Impact of Marginalization On the Social Determinants of Health

Posted on July 15, 2023 by greg

Oxford reference defines marginalization as a spatial metaphor for a process of social exclusion in which individuals or groups are relegated to the fringes of a society, being denied economic, political, and/or symbolic power and pushed towards being ‘outsiders’. Marginalized … Continue reading →

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How to Respond to Monopolies Today

Posted on May 15, 2023 by greg

Since the beginning of the Republic, Americans have used antimonopoly policy not only to preserve market competition, but to preserve the economic opportunity of the individual citizen and to guarantee that power and property would not become concentrated in the … Continue reading →

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How to Address Inequities in the Era Woke Capitalism

Posted on May 1, 2023 by greg

Social justice as a concept arose in the early 19th century during the Industrial Revolution and subsequent civil revolutions throughout Europe, which aimed to create more egalitarian societies and remedy capitalistic exploitation of human labor. Social justice refers to a … Continue reading →

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How Empowerment Can Drive Real Change

Posted on November 1, 2021 by greg

Empowerment has been defined as an intentional ongoing process centered in the local community, involving mutual respect, critical reflection, caring, and group participation, through which people lacking an equal share of valued resources gain greater access to and control over … Continue reading →

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The Lie Behind Unbridled Capitalism

Posted on June 1, 2021 by greg

Friedrich Nietzsche observed, “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” Even what we believe we see with our own eyes is made up from memory. When referring to blind spots in our … Continue reading →

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Beyond Plutocracy: the Return of Democracy

Posted on April 20, 2018 by greg

The Power Elite is a 1956 book by sociologist C. Wright Mills, in which Mills calls attention to the interwoven interests of the military, corporate and political elements of society and suggests that the ordinary citizen is a relatively powerless … Continue reading →

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The Poor Must Seize the Charities

Posted on April 1, 2018 by greg

It is not enough to mitigate the worst aspects of poverty. We should instead seek to harness the potential of direct aid to create organizations which aim to abolish the conditions which make that aid necessary. Vulnerability has three important … Continue reading →

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