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  • 4.Cooperation Takes (and Bakes) the Cake

    A bird’s eye view of a community in New Harmony, Indiana, United States, as proposed by Robert Owen. Engraving by F. Bate, London 1838. It’s not easy. We need to cooperate with one another to produce and protect goods and services that can’t be adequately provided through market exchange alone. Here’s the catch: the social capabilities that…

  • 3. Social Democracy, Meet Democratic Socialism

    In which the author explains how socialism is morphing into a feminist defense of affordable parenthood and apple pie. I have long described myself as a socialist feminist. I love the word pinko, because it has a vintage glow. Time magazine used it in 1925 as a snappy way of altering the term “pink,” long…

  • 2. Chicken Little Cassandra Girl Cries Wolf

    This title is just a tease, since there are no wolves on the Titanic, only deck chairs and ballrooms. Chicken Little Cassandra Girl or CLCG (See-El-See-Gee, as she likes to call herself, accent on the second syllable, as in Eurydice) is on stage, doing her song and dance. Her comedy routine is heavy on apocalypse,…

  • 1. Debut

    The title of this site kind of speaks for itself, but a bit of personal history will help explain where I am headed. I’ve always liked short-form writing. Back in 2009 I started a blog called Care Talk that led to an invitation to post weekly on the  New York Times Economix blog, which I continued…

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