Feudalism

By all rights, Donald Trump should be packing his bags and headed to the golf links and his favorite fast food restaurant. Never popular, he has done little to expand his base over the past three years. Unlike previous officeholders, many from more humble beg…

Written by Tavleen Singh | Published: December 29, 2019 2:40:28 am PM Modi was expected to take us out of our socialist rut onto a new road, writes Tavleen SinghThese last weeks of the year that ends next week have been a time of such turmoil and gloom f…

The dreaming spires of Oxford University viewed from Hinksey Hill. The Decade Witchy Things Went Mainstream My Cat Jumps on My Husbands Nuts in the Morning and Wakes Us All Up My Puppy Wont Eat His Kibble. Can I Feed Him H…

"We are no longer under a Christian regime," said Pope Francis days ago, "because the faith especially in Europe but also in much of the West no longer constitutes an obvious premise of common life. On the contrary, it is even often denied, derided, marginali…

Key Point: And marked the coming of the end for the South.  The occasion was, for the North, inauspicious. In the Battle of First Manassas, the Federals were routed, humiliated, and almost utterly crushed. In the Seven Days, they were outmaneuvered and force…

Americas birth represented a dramatic break from the past. Save for a few vestiges of the old European feudal order, mostly in the plantation economy of the Deep South, there was no hereditary nobility, no national church and, thanks to George Washingtons mod…

—By James Burk Michel Bauwens, 2/1/06 1. David Bollier: How will P2P culture wash over and transform existing market-based identities? Michel Bauwens: My belief is the following: that before a system collapses, it will exhibit the worst of its features. Th…

Leslie Gore’s 1963 hit song ‘You Don’t Own Me’ started off with the line “You don’t own me, I’m not just one of your toys”. So it is with the overwhelming number of our population who, despite NOT knowing it, are owned by this Amerikan empire. Sadly, they hav…

Universal basic stakeholding (UBS) is a generalized theory of granting all individuals skin in the game in a collective society. The stake granted to individual stakeholders of a system is called a universal basic stake. Alignment of interest, goal congruence…

The last year in science fiction and fantasy novels saw a welcome mix of debut voices and returning favorites. While genre fiction is often seen as an escapist form of literature (something thats understandably needed in 2019), the best stories often address …