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Phenomenology of Health Care in the United States
I. As I have pointed out endlessly in essays like Health Care, Race and Treachery, the United States has undoubtedly the most unsatisfactory record among any technological country in providing health care for its citizens. At times, opposition to reform...
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Parasitic Oscillation from the Right
The vicissitudes of the language have their parallel in the vicissitudes of political behavior. In the sale of equipment for relaxing entertainment in bomb shelters, in the television show of competing candidates for national leadership, the juncture...
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The Sanity Defense
Events that are beyond human decisions do happen; social arrangements do change without benefit of explicit decision. But in so far as such decisions are made--and in so far as they could be but are not made--the problem of who is involved in making them--or...
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Tea Parties You May Have Missed
In September 2005, roughly a week after Hurricane Katrina ripped into the Gulf Coast, a group of New Orleans police officers discovered the burned shell of a car sitting on an earthen levee overlooking the bloated Mississippi River. Inside the scorched...
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Complex, Very Complex
It seems that Democrats in Congress are feeling a bit insecure because the voting polls are predicting Republican gains in both the Senate and House of Representatives in the November 2010 election. If the people who voted in 2008 for the Democrats would...
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Iraqi Finis
In Main Currents of Sociological Thought , French Sociologist Raymond Aron devotes a significant portion of Volume 1 to the observations Alexis de Tocqueville made during his visit to the United States around the center of the 19th Century. His interpretation...
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Blowout Prevention
On July 17, 2010 there was an incident on Interstate 580, a major East-West corridor in the San Francisco Bay Area, with overtones of political violence. The San Francisco Bay Area is the 6th largest Metropolitan Area in the United States. A middle aged...
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American Mental Disabilities
I remember what it was like in the United States in the 1960s. There were powerful right wing forces in the political culture which in some parts of the country were supported by a large percentage of the public. These forces were partially the remnants...
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Neo-Right - Neo-Nazi
First published in 1942, Franz Neumann’s Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism does more than chronicle the rise of Adolf Hitler and National Socialism to a position of controlling the most industrialized nation in Europe although...
GLOSSARY OF CONCEPTS IN CRITICAL THEORY
I find that I receive emails from others on overblog who appear to have never read any of my essays or, if they have tried to do so, have no understanding of what I write. You are wasting your time, I don't read pandering emails, I simply delete them...
