Claude Wilson
Articles
Column: Education, not incarceration
The solution to the widespread gun violence we are seeing, and school shootings more specifically, is not for more police officers to be put in schools.
Column: The poisonous optimism of capitalism in 'Ready Player One'
"Ready Player One" is a thoroughly awful novel which has now been made into a movie which is shaping up to be comparable to the source material in quality. But it's movie adaptation has some eerie parallels that hit a little too close to home.
Column: Whose election was it anyway?
A proper democracy means that all citizens should have equal political power. Our current system of campaign finance results, instead, in a plutocracy — the wealthier a citizen is, the more influence he or she is able to exert on politicians and legislature.
Column: Marx, Lincoln and the Republican Party
In 1864, Abraham Lincoln would receive a letter from an organization known as the International Workingmen’s Association. The letter congratulated Lincoln on his reelection and praised his making the abolition of slavery into the Union’s mission during the Civil War.
Column: The market and its discontents
During the earlier part of the 20th century, an “Economic Calculation Debate” took place between economists; one side argued for a centrally planned socialist economy, the other for a laissez-faire capitalist one.
Column: Rise like lions—the return of the British Left
On June 8, 2017, the United Kingdom’s governing Conservative Party called a snap election in an attempt to gain a larger majority in Parliament.
Column: Municipalize the Internet
As it currently stands, the Federal Communications Commission is planning to repeal net neutrality. Net neutrality effectively prevents internet service providers from being able to slow speeds for those websites and internet users who don’t pay extra.
Column: The next economic crisis is bound to happen
For as long as there has been capitalism, there have been economic crises which have been responsible for drastic shifts in the global economic order.
Column: George W. Bush is still terrible
In response to the ongoing buffoonery of President Donald Trump, there has been a disturbing trend among liberals to attempt to rehabilitate the image of George W. Bush so that he functions as a contrast, an ahistorical example of a president who was “not as bad.” In order to make this claim, one has to deliberately ignore the still relevant aftermath of his presidency.
Column: No war with Iran please
I don’t know about you, but if you ask me, instigating a war with Iran is a really, really bad idea.
