The following is a slightly revised version of my presentation at the faculty workshop on “Christianity and the Marketplace,” held in August 2017, at the Offutt School of Business, Concordia College. I was given the topic “Ethics of Inequality,” but I ended up talking mostly about the nature and logic of capitalism, which is what…
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…
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…