UUJECLabor Day 2023 Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community supports the Starbucks workers who are organizing democratic labor unions. Our Unitarian Universalists principles affirm the “the inherent… Continue Reading UUJEC Supports Starbucks Workers (and others)
by Francis Fukuyama, 2002 A Review: Enlightenment Principles Sure Beat Identity Politics, but We Need Global Principles to Survive Fukuyama adopts a welcome centrist approach to classical liberalism:… Continue Reading Liberalism and its Discontents
Columbus Day is a U.S. holiday that commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the Americas in 1492, and Columbus Day 2020 will be tomorrow. After being unofficially… Continue Reading Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2020
A History of the United States by Jill Lepore, 2018 The “these truths” in this book’s title refer to the truths enumerated in our Declaration of Independence. Lepore… Continue Reading These Truths
by Branco Milanovic, 2016 A New Approach for the Age of Globalization Branko Milanovic demonstrates that escalating economic inequality within nations is occurring globally, not just in the… Continue Reading Global Inequality
by George Lakey, 2016 How the Scandinavians Got It Right – and How We Can, Too This is a very readable and down-to-earth book that dispels a flood… Continue Reading Viking Economics
An Activist’s Guide to Economic Justice by Les Leopold, 2015 Most persons who visit this web page have read one or more books on income inequality. Runaway Inequality,… Continue Reading Runaway Inequality
In 2010, the top 20% of the private wealth holders in our nation owned 89% of the nation’s private wealth, while the remaining 80% of the people owned… Continue Reading Our Escalating Inequality
Final problem statement: Today’s worldwide capitalist/financial system does not concern itself with moral values; that is, it does not consider the well-being of those outside its economic self-interest.… Continue Reading UUFN Final Position Paper on the “Escalating Inequality” CS/AI
By Robert Paxton, 2004 Fascism Today in Light of its Historical Complexity This book gives an excellent survey of diverse fascist movements and regimes as they played out… Continue Reading The Anatomy of Fascism