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The Cruel Right’s Philosophical Torture Kit

The Cruel Right’s Philosophical Torture Kit

April 3, 2017 By V.B. Price 88 Comments

It’s hard to understand the thinking of people who believe it’s quite alright to financially undermine programs like Meals on Wheels or strip federal dollars from programs for the poor and homeless, including food assistance and job training, and cut off funds from Habitat for Humanity, the Rural Business Cooperative, and the Corporation for Public […]

Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: commons, Politics, trump

Transgender Victims of Bully Politics and States’ “Rights” to Bigotry

Transgender Victims of Bully Politics and States’ “Rights” to Bigotry

March 6, 2017 By V.B. Price 96 Comments

Among the saddest and cruelest acts in the first five weeks of chaos in the Republican controlled U.S. government was directed at one of the most vulnerable and besieged populations in our country – transgender school children. The Trump Whitehouse countermanded guidelines for non-discriminatory bathrooms and locker facilities in public schools issued last year by […]

Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: civil rights, Politics, transgender bathrooms, trump

Sabotaging the Golden Rule: Bullies, Bigots, Narcisists and the “Philosophy” of Selfishness

Sabotaging the Golden Rule: Bullies, Bigots, Narcisists and the “Philosophy” of Selfishness

February 13, 2017 By V.B. Price 97 Comments

American political thinking is being infected by a mind-eating form of philosophic sadism sold as something called a rational virtue, the virtue of selfishness. It arises from the writings of a cult author of the 1940s and 1950s with the pen name of Ayn Rand whose ideas were conveyed into popular culture via her two […]

Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Ayn Rand, Donald Trump, Objectivism, Politics, Social Darwanism, susana martinez

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