It’s the Economy, Stupid!

The following is a slightly revised version of my presentation at the annual Faith, Reason, and World Affairs Symposium held at Concordia College, Moorhead, on the topic of “Sustainability” on September 17, 2014. I still think that capitalism is incompatible with sustainability, but I don’t believe that it is the final root cause. Some people…

Requiem for the American Dream (7)

The ninth principle of the concentration of wealth and power deals with one of Chomsky’s abiding themes, i.e., the mechanisms through which thought control—or the manufacturing of consent—takes place in a liberal democracy. Chomsky begins by referring to the origins of the public relations and advertising industries at the turn of the twentieth-century: The public…