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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/opinion/14brooks.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss I missed this column by Cockeyed Platonist (CP) when it was first published. 'The Tree Of Failure' is a title redolent with possibilities and CP exercises his good judgment and ethical restraint to telling effect.This is not simply a … Continue reading →

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About This Book About the Authors Reviews This book examines “the great contraction” of 2007–2010 within the context of the neoliberal globalization that began in the early 1980s. This new phase of capitalism greatly enriched the top 5 percent of … Continue reading →

About This Book About the Authors Reviews Table of Contents The advent of economic neoliberalism in the 1980s triggered a shift in the world economy. In the three decades following World War II, now considered a golden age of capitalism, … Continue reading →

In this collection of essays I chose to read, as a break from my other reading, Deep Disquietudes:Reflections on Wittgenstein as Anti-philosopher by Louis Sass. Having started my reading about Wittgenstein with ‘Wittgenstein’s Vienna’ nearly forty years ago and re-reading … Continue reading →

Earlier this month we published a new book from Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, both of whom are Directors of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Duménil and Lévy are the authors of an earlier … Continue reading →

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Filed at 6:31 a.m. EST on January 19, 2011 DUBLIN (AP) — A 1997 letter from the Vatican warned Ireland’s Catholic bishops not to report all suspected child-abuse cases to police — a disclosure that victims’ groups described as “the … Continue reading →

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