Jesus Christ did not come to rescue Wall Street like President Obama. He did not come to save the American Chamber of Commerce. He did not come to free corporations, regardless of how many courts claim that they are, contrary to all rational thought, “persons”. And he would not have agreed with that money is […]
“We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile” Ariel Dorfman This is a story told to me by a remarkable student. She attends my Philosophy classes and the classes I teach. Gabriela Inostroza de Gatica is very Latin, the native blood of South America flows in her veins. She is […]
I tried a thought experiment today. I tried to feel sorry for Theresa May. I tried to understand her as a woman and as a human being who has – by any reckoning – been through a torrid time, ending in very public humiliation. It wasn’t easy. Primarily, of course, it wasn’t easy because of […]