NASA will launch the Orion spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday morning. Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. A new NASA rocket is about to take off on a… Read More ›
Politics
Conservative Socialism: On Cold War-era Latin America in “China: Mao’s Legacy”
In the latter half of the Second World War, the “Cold War,” Latin America bore witness to proxy wars, civil wars, and revolutions by the Jeffersonians and the Soviets, who sought to gain influence among the continent’s nations. All notions… Read More ›
Update (23 August 2022)
Today, I have about three topics which I would like to discuss at some point this week. My goal is to post them throughout the course of the week. Without further ado, allow me to address them. The first post… Read More ›
On IRS Funding Increase
The contemporary US Taxation System is so unlike the one described by Alexander Hamilton in three of his Federalist Papers. Split between Federal, State and Municipal governments, the contemporary US Taxation System under the Jeffersonians was developed over the centuries… Read More ›
On “Pan-Germanic Socialists against Capitalism”
Since my comments on ARPLAN appears to have not been approved, I will be discussing the ideas described therein in what was a two-part comment. The two-part comment, besides presenting a tenable case on Pan-Germanic Socialism’s Socialistic tendencies, also sought… Read More ›
Conservative Socialism: On Vidal’s Anti-Imperialism
Readers of The Fourth Estate will know that in The Work-Standard (2nd Ed.), specific entries are devoted to the subject of the “American Empire.” The great question posited therein is the problem of properly defining the precise boundaries with regard… Read More ›
“Monthly Fragebogen: The Rathenau Murder”
Bogumil, I hope you do not mind me commenting on your older ARPLAN posts because what I am about to discuss is relevant to my own ongoing Blog posts. To begin, history and personal experiences have taught me that the… Read More ›
Conservative Socialism: On Goldwater’s Green Conservatism
In today’s America, the idea of Conservatism and Environmentalism being incompatible with each other is a misconception. What most Americans do not know (or perhaps not remember too well) is that there was once a time when it was tenable… Read More ›
A Cryptocurrency pegged to the Work-Standard?
Cryptocurrencies, it should be recalled, were intended to not have an intermediate financial authority in any given transaction. The Blockchain is limited to the two participating parties and everyone else who has access to the Blockchain. From here, the concept… Read More ›
Update (1 August 2022)
I have about three posts in the works at the moment. One post serves as a further discussion on the concept of Stablecoins, a class of Cryptocurrency, and what their significance means for the Work-Standard. Perhaps there is another way… Read More ›
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