Is America the Spain of the 21st Century?
By Tom Kando Okay, so August 2 is approaching - Armageddon. Washington fails to raise the debt ceiling. America defaults. It’s the end of Am...
Facts to Make you Angry
By Tom Kando Inequality is progressing as rapidly as ever, and our reaction to this is as misguided as ever: 1. We learn now that median pay...
What is more important: a crotch shot, or the global economy?
By Tom Kando The titillation du jour is New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s “sex scandal.” Comedians (Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, etc.) are ha...
How Can We Best Support Our Troops?
by Tom Kando The news (E.g. the Sacramento Bee and the Washington Post , May 31, 2011) told us again today what most moderately well-informe...
The American Devolution
by Tom Kando A hot debate in California at this time is whether or not to build the high-speed rail. Voters approved $10 billion for this in...
Who is Guilty - Dominique Strauss-Kahn or American Criminal Justice?
By Tom Kando Fresh back from vacation, I can’t resist weighing in on the fascinating debate triggered by Madeleine’s post “ The DSK Affair ....
The DSK Affair
by Madeleine Kando I have been following the recent 'DSK affair' with fascination. The head of the International Monetary Fund, Domi...
Obama Trumps Osama
By Tom Kando Is this a good title or what? My wife came up with it. Lately, the news has been coming fast and furious. The most prominent re...
Originalism, or the Living Constitution?
By Tom Kando There is an interesting article by Jill Lepore in the January 17 issue of the New Yorker , titled The Commandments . It discuss...
More Republican Lies - Part Two
By Tom Kando This is the second half of an analysis of the mendacious arguments used by ultra-conservatives such as columnist Charles Krauth...
Republican Lies - Part One
By Tom Kando So the Republicans are trying to bust the unions in Wisconsin and elsewhere. A recent article by Charles Krauthammer (“ Wiscons...
Deficit, Schmeficit
By Madeleine Kando and Tom Kando Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker and his Republican minions are now trying to take away most collective ba...
Passing the Buck
by Gene Barnes Professor Emeritus of Physics California State University Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman was reported to have had a s...
Generalizations
By Tom Kando I tried to post this as a comment. Too long. Won’t accept it. Hence, a separate post: We are honored to post Prof. Ten Have’s e...
On the Use of 'Collectivity Nouns'
by Paul ten Have retired Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Amsterdam This is an invitation to (re-)consider the use of what I w...
Egypt's Dilemma
by Madeleine Kando In a Wall Street Journal article by Hernando de Soto entitled ' Egypt's Economic Apartheid ', the Peruvian ec...