It's definitely true that law enforcement in the US comes down harder on racial minorities than it does on White people. Absolutely true. The statistics are undeniable. This is something I've known and complained about for decades, because it has been true for decades ( Read more... )

Was talking about politics with a friend, specifically what I continue to think is the disaster of the "Defund the Police" slogan, which has been popping up more frequently again with the anniversary of George Floyd's murder. This friend repeated an argument I've heard before, that the level of crime is way down since the 1990s so we don't need to ( Read more... )

I don't know how to take a 19th Century Marxist analysis and map it on top of a highly-developed 21st Century economy.  The global economy has grown, diversified, and specialized so much since then, with more inequality than Marx could've imagined.  A seemingly infinite variety of jobs, skills, careers, educational degrees, business entities, goods ( Read more... )