Thinking With Somebody Else's Head

I showed Charles Ferguson ’s Inside Job documentary to some friends on the weekend. And watched their heads nod knowingly. These are pretty...

The crisis has been blamed on mortgage malpractice, on poor or non-existent regulation, on greed for banking bonuses that causes risky lendi...

We are a program about thinking, of course, but also a program about acting, about contributing to a better society. It's our contention...

We live in a world dominated by the pathology of power. And we’re totally ingenuous about that. But ignorance of corruption is no excuse, an...

The poet, William Ross Wallace , but it well: "Every man dies, but not every man really lives," he said. And that should give us p...

We are living in the best of times for social activism. Norberto Keppe ’s science of Analytical Trilogy contains priceless perspectives on ...

“Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. Bribery and corruption are common and there are signs the world is speedily coming to an end....

Corruption. Some government official with his hand out or a doctor accepting an all expenses paid fishing trip in exchange for promoting new...

It was Jefferson who first realized the necessity of a free press in America. “Media is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of ma...

We have become inured to the huge levels of injustice and corruption perpetrated by our political/economic system today, and this needs to c...

The feeding frenzy arising from the charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn stimulate analysis. How we in the public rise up in collective in...

What is the true nature of man? Is it good, beautiful and true? Or a mix of those elements with corruption and evil? That question strikes ...

Bin Laden's death. A major victory by the good guys over the bad guys? Or an inverted celebration based on a false sense of unity? We ma...

Billions watching on TV. Carriages, choirs, cheering spectators. Followed by late night assassinations, mysterious burials at sea, celebrati...

You might not know firsthand the social conscience displayed by the artists of the ‘60s, and the social and civil rights activists from the ...

It is extremely important to perceive that the established powers have been organized to control the will of the people, paralyzing their ca...

Here’s a wild thought: it’s our socio-economic structure that is causing most of our distress and misery today. We’ll even go a little furth...

We’re spending thousands of dollars per second. We’re disrupting the lives of millions of people. We’re damaging our soldiers and our own ci...

Drug dealers, prostitutes, terrorists, assassins. These are all aspects of society we have to deal with in our modern world. But not only in...

The Tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan, the rising up in the Arab world, Haiti, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, another war … this ...