Claude Wilson
Articles
Column: Music for post-election relaxation
" Departing from my usual focus on politics, I’ve opted to recommend some music for the tense atmosphere. "
Column: We're all going to die (carbon emissions edition)
"If the private sector dictates our future, then we are guaranteed not to have one."
Column: Dude, where's my wage growth?
Compensation for labor is declining, but corporate profits are growing exponentially. The source? Corporate "monsopsony," when businesses have the exclusive power to buy a commodity.
Column: Workers unite
To my fellow students entering the workplace soon or years in the future: don’t expect your employers to take care of you.
Column: Don't give the General Assembly a blank check
" I would advise the reader to vote against the proposed amendment to institute voter identification laws — even if you support requiring a form of identification to vote."
Column: *Pulls off mask* Thomas Goolsby!
Among the white men who have had their feelings hurt by the statue’s removal is UNC Board of Governors member and former state senator Thomas Cowart Goolsby.
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.
