Month: August 2022
Petya and the Authorities
Introductory note. This text, published in Russian here, on the website of the Russian section of the International Workers’ Association, was written by a teenage school student ...
healthcare, Labor movement, Politics
Nursing Homes: Understaffing and Neglect
In both the United States and Canada, understaffing at nursing homes for the elderly leads to gross neglect of helpless patients. Why?
Humanity on a Cross of Iron
A surge is underway in military spending and arms sales, fueled by the war in Ukraine and the confrontation over Taiwan. Global demand for advanced weaponry is ...
Book Review, Economics, healthcare
What Are Hospitals For?
Source: Timothy Snyder, Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary (New York: Crown, 2020) This is a hospital. What are hospitals for? Perhaps you think that they ...