Feudalism

By Joseph Joyce The time to announce the recipient of this year's "Globie" is finally here. Each year I choose a book as the Globalization Book of the Year. The prize is - alas - strictly honorific and does not come with a monetary reward. But it gives me a…

Its easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you dont change, your field changes around you. - Walter Gilbert Technology is disrupting the way we work. Independent or contract work is hardly a new phenomenon, but the post-global financial cri…

Es iz schwer tzu sein a yid. It is hard to be a Jew. ~Sholem Aleichem When Britains Jews go to the polls next week, they do so at an uncomfortable moment. For the first time in at least a half century, their communityroughly 330,000 citizenshas become a maj…

4.4) Part VIII: Primitive Accumulation: At the end of Part VII, Marx had completed his analysis of how the purpose of capitalism-as-a-system was simply capital accumulation, which produced ever more productivity, wealth, and misery, all three growing together…

Yellow Vest protesters and other public sector workers are holding large scale strikes today throughout France, in protest at President Emmanuel Macrons economic reforms, aiming to make the countrys leader alter his policy on pensions in particular.Journalist…

The authorities in Jammu and Kashmir imposed Section 144 around the mausoleum of National Conference (NC) founder Sheikh Muhamad Abdullah on his 114th birth anniversary on Thursday and barred family members, including incarcerated son Farooq Abdullah and gran…

One of the most common arguments in favor of the existence of billionaires is the “but they give so much to charity” argument. I have a lot of problems with this, and in this video, Anand Giridharadas and Hasan Minhaj go through most of them. When I talk to …

Tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean are rapidly rising after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan met with a Libyan official of the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), based in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, in Ankara last week.…

When my grandmother died she owned no property, personal or real; no goods, durable or consumable. Personal property is also called movable property, personalty, movables, chattels (chattels first meant goods and money, and later came to be associated with a …

Welcome back to our series on the libraries of famous men.  Jack London led one of the most interesting and extraordinary lives in history, even though his life was half as long as most. By age 17, he had navigated San Francisco Bay as “Prince of the Oyster …