- Hooray for Hollywood Part 2
As we noted in our prior article on the latest round of Hollywood sex scandals, Harvey Weinstein’s actions and those of a myriad of other producers in Hollywood are unethical. However, except for the accusations of sexual assault, probably not illegal.
You see, the women were not actually employees directly supervised in any way by Weinstein at ...
- Hooray For Hollywood!
My family has lived in Southern California long before the movies arrived here. “THE INDUSTRY” is not, and never has been, central to our California identity. Being outside “the Industry” and only having had one member of the family to ever even consider “the Industry” as a career, gives one a unique viewpoint in Southern ...
- California Dystopia Pt. 1
I was born the fifth generation of my family in Southern California sixty years ago. Sometimes it’s difficult to believe, but in the early years of my parent’s life and of my own, Southern California was a paradise. Wages were high, housing was inexpensive. Employment at every level, from Janitor on up, was easy to ...
- Why America Needs a Student Debt Jubilee
Student loan debt is a nationwide disaster. There is currently over 1.4 trillion dollars of debt accrued by 42 million students and graduates. In a opinion piece written by a loan collector in 2011, he wrote “As I wandered around the crowd of NYU students at their rally protesting student debt at the end of ...
- Interviews At Our Booth – Politicon 2017
Interviews At Our Booth - Politicon 2017
Leviathan and Its Enemies is a book about power: who has it, how they got it, how they keep it, and whether it can be taken from them.
Today we are giving our take on the Biden administration’s announcement that it will be raising tariffs on a host of Chinese-made products. Given they are calling for a 100% tariff on electric vehicles, we ...
On August 24th, the Department of Justice announced it was suing Elon Musk’s "Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) for discriminating against asylees and refugees in its hiring practices." The news took ...
Given the numerous attempts to pack immigration provisions into current spending bills, there’s probably no better time to talk about the real meaning of the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty has long been a ...