How the Bobos Broke America | David Brooks

Illustration by Kimberly Elliott The creative class was supposed to foster progressive values and economic growth. Instead we got resentment, alienation, and endless political dysfunction. Aug. 2, 20 ...

Why The Working Class Is Turning To Fascism | umair haque

Image Credit: Dave Leip The Working Class is Choosing Regress Over Progress, Around the World May 16, 2021 (Eudaimonia and Co) -- The world has a very big problem, and it goes like this: its working ...

Philosophical thoughts for the future | David Bradley

The School of Athens (1509-11) Raphael. Location: Stanza della Segnatura (Signature Room), Vatican. CC0 Public Domain Nov. 20, 2020 (Inderscience) -- Science, philosophy, and religion all attempt to ...

A philosopher’s 350-year-old trick to get people to change their minds | Olivia Goldhill

Blaise Pascal, Palace of Versailles. Artist unknown; a copy of the painting of François II Quesnel, which was made for Gérard Edelinck en 1691, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Sept. 11, 2016 (Quart ...

Antifa in Theory and in Practice | Diana Johnstone

Photo by jcrakow | CC BY 2.0 (Editor's note: This CounterPunch story is from three years ago. -Francis Goodwin) “Fascists are divided into two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists.” – Ennio ...

America is a Smoking Fascist Dystopia | umair haque

America Has Less Than 50 Days to Save Itself From Even Greater Disaster Sept. 15, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- I woke up this morning to news that was particularly horrific. Forced mass sterilisations a ...

BOOKS: Bitter Tales from the Massive White Underclass in Joe Bageant's "Redneck" Memoir

"Economic, political, and social culture in America is staggering under the sheer weight of its white underclass, which now numbers some sixty million." Sept. 20, 2010 (AlterNet) -- The following is ...

The Plan to Destroy American Democracy | umair haque

Photo: Medium How Trump Plans to Steal the Election Aug. 1, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- By now, the plan to steal the next election is as plain as day — for anyone who cares to look that is. Why it’s p ...

Trump is Preparing America For Dictatorship | umair haque

Newsflash: Don’t Rely on Mitch McConnell to Save You From Donald Trump July 31 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- There’s a thing that authoritarians do that us survivors of authoritarianism know all too well ...

Donald Trump, American Dictator | umair haque

Trump Doesn’t Need to Delay an Election to Spoil It July 30, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) --By now, you’ve probably heard that Donald Trump announced he wants to… delay the election. Cue a firestorm. So. H ...

The World is Horrified by Trump’s America | umair haque

Trump Led America Off the Cliffs of Disease, Poverty, Authoritarianism, and Chaos, and the World is Appalled July 29, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- Every single day, every single person I talk to who’s n ...