By all accounts, anything written by David Graeber is about as far from typical “conservative” fare that you might expect to find featured on this site. Graeber is an anthropologist and anarchist, an early member of the Occupy Wall Stree movement. He’s so “out there” that even Yale decided not to renew his contract as an assistant […]
The Daily Show reports on Occupy Wall Street
November 30, 2011 by
In case you missed it, The Daily Show did a segment on the Occupy Wall Street movement before OWS was kicked out of the park. Guess what? They weren’t so different from the current status quo. Check it out:
In (plenty of) time for Christmas, go get an Occupy t-shirt.
November 22, 2011 by
Just in time for Black Friday, Despair, Inc brings you the perfect t-shirt for the Occupier on your Christmas list.: Go get it from Despair,Inc.
The Conservatives’ Challenge on Economic Inequality
November 18, 2011 by
[This is the first in a set of pieces by Benjamin Lusty, lawyer and an occasional contributor to Publius Online, on the topic of economic inequality] ______________________________________________________________ Americans tend not to wage class war. The rugged individual within us celebrates economic success. True, we loathe profit by malfeasance, but we do not begrudge those who prosper […]
An interesting thing happened on the way to Occupy Wall Street…
October 18, 2011 by
An interesting thing happened on the way to the Occupy Wall Street protest… The wealthy got involved. Since sometime last week, a new meme has circled the internet. “We are the 1%,” it says, and it shows independently wealthy twenty and thirty hoisting cardboards and papers with short manifestos written in Sharpie. It almost always […]
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