Culture

Author and Jungian analyst Steven Herrmann discusses the concept of “spiritual democracy” as explored in the writings of American poets like Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson.

How can we develop a deeper, more human and multifaceted understanding of the past?

Researchers studying beasts that pass on resources and advantages to offspring have raised the old question of whether humans are destined to live in stratified conditions. Your view may depend on your relative position.

Single-family home-ownership—elusive for many today—is an aspiration we ought to abandon

The perverted dreams of western modernity and capitalism may be exhausting themselves, says author Eugene McCarraher. And that’s something to be thankful for.

Racial inequalities of wealth and income are pervasive. This episode of Debt Talks will feature a conversation with four prominent experts on the persistence of racial inequalities of wealth and income and the role of financial markets in shaping them.

What counts as work and what doesn’t?

Ben Power, who adapted the play “The Lehman Trilogy,” talks about the eponymous family’s role in the creation and destruction of American wealth

Despite the moral assurance and personal flattery that meritocracy offers to the successful, it ought to be abandoned both as a belief about how the world works and as a general social ideal.

Stigmatizing and relegating an activity to the shadows doesn’t improve anyone’s welfare

Decades before it caught on with other economists, Sadie Alexander was the first economist to recommend a government jobs guarantee in the US

Pharmaceutical pushers like Purdue “couldn’t have done their dirty work” without America’s increasingly unbalanced economy

Economic distress in rural areas and opioid exposure in cities are key indicators of overdose deaths

Economic distress in rural areas and opioid exposure in cities are key indicators of overdose deaths

Rob Johnson and Michael Sandel discuss the limits of rational choice