A few last thoughts about the upcoming elections.

What is it that's so bad about . . . What's so bad about Marxists? Is it that they exhibit a sympathy for the working class or is it their understanding of class in terms of differing relations of production?  I'm not a "Marxist" because I have some specific serious…

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Meet a Beggar

I recently visited Chicago with my nine-year old daughter.  We stayed at an old hotel near the city center, just south of the Chicago River.  Though it was a high rent district, one of our neighbors worked as a beggar. When the beggar first approached us on that wide sidewalk…

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