Category: impulses
short, quick, impulsive writing
Only the Emperor’s Clothes Change
It’s remarkable how little changes over time. Doesn’t this 1989 complaint of Audre Lorde’s sound familiar? “We are a territory of the most power...
Call a Spade a Spade
[S]cholar Edward Baptist (Cornell) has provided new terms with which to speak about slavery. In his 2014 book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Maki...
Revisions Needed
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. Anonymous I came across, by way of ...
The Consumer Wins?
BBC Business Daily discusses 21st Century Monopolies with the Jonathan Tepper, author of The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition, and so...