5-13-20: A Science Curriculum for Havasupai Elementary School
[Note: We wrote this post, which is an envisioned science curriculum for a Native American elementary school in Arizona, following an analysis and discussion of the lawsuit Stephen C. v. BIE (see...
View Article5-14-2020 A better future?
A better future is possible – But we have to make it happen “Disaster capitalism is being tried, and the worst case is now the likely case. But there is a scale beyond which disaster capitalism cannot...
View Article2020-5-16 MMT for Me but not for Thee
MMT for Me but not for Thee “If the problem is financialization, then the solution to the economy has to be to de-financialize. That cannot be done as a slow process. It can only be done in a single...
View Article2020-5-18 Three Small Anecdotes, One Big Lesson
Three Small Anecdotes, One Big Lesson Empathy (noun): the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. We normally follow the consequences of “Big Policy” at the somewhat more granular...
View Article2020-5-21 Test, Trace, Isolate …
It’s Time: Test, Trace and … Isolate? Simon Wren-Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Merton College, Oxford has just published his first column in the Mirror, and provides a clear,...
View Article2020-5-23 The Magic Number is “Three”
The Magic Number is “Three” The Times featured a story on the death rate of blacks and Latinos in nursing homes from Covid-19 a few days ago. It appears from preliminary review of the data from the 22...
View Article2020-5-24 Nursing homes: Good ideas, but
Nursing Homes: A Day Late and a Dollar Short It’s almost as if the NYT is writing follow-ups to its own stories now – in this case, that which formed one of the topics of yesterday’s blog essay (“The...
View Article2020-5-24 That European Travel Ban? Too late …
That European Travel Ban? A Day Late and a Dollar Short Anyone following the news the weekend of March 12-14 could see it coming, and come it did – the return of travelers from Europe (Ireland and...
View Article2020-5-28 Caught at the Crossroads of Injustice
Caught at the Crossroads of Injustice Sometimes our humble writing effort to identify and explain events which happen to people caught at the crossroads of injustice becomes difficult, even though that...
View Article2020-5-29: Days of Reckoning
Days of Reckoning “Do you want to prevent the kind of rioting, looting and arson we have seen in Minneapolis this week? Then stop police officers and racist vigilantes from killing black men, like...
View Article2020-5-30 Out of Options
No Solution in Sight A Recap of Events (as of early morning Saturday): Events in Minneapolis, which are now having repercussions across the country, continue to unfold by the hour. For the moment,...
View Article2020-5-31 Day Five: Chaos, Confusion
Day Five: Chaos and Confusion [*UPDATED*] It’s going to be a long night, again. Curfews have now been issued for around 15 cities – including Chicago (issued for 9 pm), which left young protestors...
View Article2020-5-31 Day Five: Chaos, Confusion (2)
Fifth Day: Chaos and Confusion (2) Another pointed and perceptive opinion piece, this one from the LA Times, written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. On racism in America: “But African Americans have been...
View Article2020-5-31 Day Five: Chaos, Confusion (2)
Fifth Day: Chaos and Confusion (2) Another pointed and perceptive opinion piece, this one from the LA Times, written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. On racism in America: “But African Americans have been...
View Article2020-6-1 Day Six: Fear and Anger
Day Six: Fear and Anger Protests have now spread pretty much everywhere across the country. And the narrative has begun to change in the past forty-eight hours. What began as peaceful protests have in...
View Article2020-6-2 Day Seven: Pause for Reflection
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”...
View Article2020-6-3 Day Eight: Structural Racism, Chicago Home Lending Edition
WBEZ and City Bureau published an outstanding piece of research today on home lending loans in Chicago neighborhoods by the big banks – you know, the ones Congress keeps bailing out again and again...
View Article2020-6-5 Quo Vadis, America?
Quo Vadis, America? America is currently suffering under the weight of two heavy burdens, one of recent origin, one deeply rooted in the country’s history. The second crisis has for the time being...
View Article2020-6-6 Defunding the Police
By now, readers will have understood that the George Floyd protests are coalescing around calls to fundamentally alter how the U.S. polices its citizens. Over the past 11 days, many white Americans...
View Article2020-6-8: Fantasy Headlines
The Headlines We’d Like to See v. The Headlines We Actually See And now for something a little different… Fantasy headlines: “Congress Recalled to Permanent Session” (Will Meet Remotely until Pandemic...
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