While shopping in Issaquah today, I stopped at Barnes & Nobel to look for the book “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power” by Jeff Sharlet. As I looked through the Current Affairs section I was struck by the large number of right wing propaganda books — by Glenn […]
How can cooperation emerge in a world of selfish individuals ruled by a Darwinian competition for survival? This is the question that Martin Nowak, Professor of Mathematics and Biology at Harvard University, discusses in Super Cooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed. Nowak and his collaborators have published a series of […]
Tens of millions of Americans are fed up with the immoral war-mongering, the torture, the rampant corruption, the fixed elections, the handouts to the super-rich, the mismanagement, the outsourcing of jobs and profits, the lack of accountability, the reckless deregulation, the dismantling of the social safety net, and the increasing concentration of wealth. The 99% […]
