Working Man’s Blues by Merle Haggard
Millworker by James Taylor. Sung by Emmy Lou Harris
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
n much recent U.S. American political rhetoric, socialism and anything resembling a concern for shared efforts, the social welfare, the common good, or the commons is mocked, upbraided, and cast out as demonic. To be concerned with others’ welfare is to be labeled that most feared opprobrium, un-American.
There was news last month that contrary to most people’s expectation, the more educated an American is, the more likely that person is to attend
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This weekend the desert in Nevada hosts a veritable Brigadoon as the Burning Man festival rises from the shimmering heat in its annual manifestation. There’s
Speaking from personal experience, there’s a great deal of commentary about religion made by scholars who don’t have any. While the lack of any personal
Some Christian religious groups are protesting Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s decision to not include formal religious prayer as part of the ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary