No longer can contemporary capitalism operate on autopilot as in Adam Smith’s time. Now, extra-market-oriented choices by citizens are becoming essential to circumscribing the market with public priorities for health and welfare, education, environmental stewardship and much more. The “new” capitalism ahead will steer around the false dichotomy of only two choices: laissez-faire or Marxism. […]
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Barak Obama’s graduation speech seems to call listeners to ask this question: What should be government’s role? So, let’s look at the intricate interface between government and capitalism. How can capitalism be fixed, patched, put back together? It begins with refurbishment of mission. What do we want and what are we willing to sacrifice in […]
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Obama’s message to the class of 2020 in 2 minutes, 20 seconds, edited by the Washington Post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5gNSHcoVmQ
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What’s the link between Utah and capitalismincrisis.org? I’ll explain. Consider a sign posted on the Boston Common, put there to dissuade messy picnickers five decades ago. Don’t Litter or We’ll Send You to Utah, it threatened humorously. It’s an illustration of why for some, Utah was and perhaps still is, a four-letter word. (Some consider […]
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I’m no fan of deceased opinion writer Charles Krauthammer. Imagine my surprise then, at a Washington Post column written by his son. According to Danial, the father was enlightened on a crucial point. Charles Krauthammer championed “real” and distinguished it from what it is not. He drew a bright line between the known and the […]
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America is stuck. We’re tied down by partisan ideology. Our situation is not unlike Gulliver. We’ve become like the giant, fallen asleep and then awakened by mini-people dancing on our collective selves, making outrageous demands. The strings controlling Gulliver are not unlike the strings of tribal partisanship. While the pragmatic majority slumbers, America’s forward path […]
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Opinion columnist Thomas Friedman laments a recent comment from a friend. What’s going on in America today, observes the retired Marine colonel, is far more grave than any external threat, including the Soviet Union. And this, says the friend, is because the threat we face is here and now, right at home, and coming from […]
Read MoreIn our last installment, our erasable zombies were pausing for a rest break…at the Great Salty City Public Library. Then, as she walks briskly…before rejoining Adam and Jeremy, Joan passes an open door…and a meeting of great interest….
Read MoreWhen last we followed our pugnacious-leaning zombie trio through the Great Salty City, Adam, Jeremy and Joan were touring the mind-expanding library designed by internationally acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie. His is a unique building with two personas, as it were. One side is logical and orderly…even as it projects cultural authoritarianism. The other, curvilinear, creative…and […]
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