Economics & Empire 369

Video of Blond's March 22nd talk at Villanova is now available online.

The ideology of free trade and managed society continues to destroy the prospects of a prosperous American in the Twenty-First Century. Let us dig down and return to the one…

And what is the CLEW, you may ask? It is the Cost of Living Extremely Well, which measures such essential items as the price rise in Beluga caviar or a…

David Brooks offers an unstinting positive assessment of Phillip Blond's alternative to the current Left/Right alignment.

Phillip Blond to lecture in Washington D.C and Philadelphia - thanks to FPR

The recent anti-empire, anti-war conference in DC could be the start of a significant Left-and-Right movement to challenge the foundation of U.S. foreign policy. An across-the-spectrum coalition has great potential…

I'll take the old gal with a few well-earned wrinkles that fit soft and snug like a favorite glove. It's the land, stupid, and boy is she a thing of…

In light of the the economic crisis - and the bright light it sheds on the failings of modern capitalism - there is a need to reconsider older arguments of…

He discovered that he could solve the dependence on loan sharks in one village with a mere $27 in capital. For a man who was used to working in millions…

When economic growth finally levels off, what kind of world comes after? Shall we be unchained from the mad rush for money of the last century? Or will other but…

The American economy has been marked by a tremendous concentration of private power over the past 50 years. The only question is not whether this should be reversed, but how…

For years, two-faced Republican demagogues have served up phony-baloney about how much they love little country churches, Norman Rockwell paintings, and old-fashioned American life, even while they were simultaneously encouraging…

Obama's energy initiatives offer little change, and less hope. Large nuclear plants with massive power grids are no solution.

The President who promised change could not even change the Chairman, not even one who had failed so badly, and who continues to fail.

Call it Factory Planet: a world in which natural processes are treated as parts of a vast world-machine operated to produce a maximum amount of wealth for humans.

It may be the great sentiment of this American moment: “I want to build something of my own. How do you not understand that?”

Both the Right and Left in American politics agree with this aim - to keep America "number one."

We have for so long asserted that we are a force for good in the world and that our efforts are in the service of "democracy" that we can no…

Doubtless he is a proud example of a high-level commitment and an educational system that aims to produce deracinated, placeless individuals.

A homogeneous global consumer culture flattens its victims. And, perhaps in the same vein, our meanderings around the dying furniture capital of Yecla turned up nothing: virtually everything on display…

We need not rely with some desperation on the Hope that is a gift, if we can gin up optimism of our own sort.

This will not last. Greed consumes everything, until it finally consumes itself.

Here is the great secret of my generation: What our parents gave us as a gift we have received as an entitlement. No one is not grateful for an entitlement.…

Claremont, CA. They call it the “Superman Syndrome.” People who use methamphetamine often believe that they are capable of doing impossible things. Like flying. Or walking through walls. Or earning…