Sep 20, 2018
Americans are far too often miserable. If we want to discover why people are upset, anxious, panicked and depressed, we have to see what is happening in their lives that agonizes them.
Sep 13, 2018
Our empire is dying.The American Dream of a stable family wage has disappeared. Prosperity gives way to precarity. Some of the symptoms of our empire’s dying are mass shootings, suicide, and addiction.
Sep 13, 2018
The US white family was based on a kind of household feudalism
where women produced useful unpaid work in cooking cleaning, social
outreach, emotional labor and child rearing. White males earned
“family wages” that could support dependent women and children.
Those wages are no longer given. Capitalists have replaced...
Sep 7, 2018
American men are in trouble. The male sex role crushes tenderness and sensitivity in little boys. The only emotion they are freely allowed is anger.