Eric Harwood, a 47-year-old man from Henderson, Nevada, has embarked upon a somewhat quixotic quest to draw attention to his desperate plight. Due to a serious physical disability, Harwood was discharged from his locksmithing job of 15 years in August and has been battling with the Social Security Administration to receive disability insurance ever since.… Continue reading The Story of Eric Harwood
Author: Matt Bruenig
Are Students Workers or Nonworkers?
I’ve been saying for some time now that, if the Left is going to push for more student benefits, it needs to do so under a pro-welfare banner, something it has not really done. My piece in Dissent on this topic features my latest rehash of this point: If we are actually going to push… Continue reading Are Students Workers or Nonworkers?
Welfare Schools and Psychoanalyzing Education Reformers
Conor P. Williams has a piece at 74 million that purports to be a simulation of what critics of Teach for America must be like. Apparently, in Wiliams’ view, they are coffee shop elite hipsters. As far as this genre of writing goes, Williams’ piece is not particularly funny, insightful, or well-executed. It comes off,… Continue reading Welfare Schools and Psychoanalyzing Education Reformers
Why Are Libertarians Mostly Men?
Every so often, people opine on the question of why libertarians are mostly men (Jeet Heer, Kevin Drum, Brink Lindsey). As someone more interested in the philosophical debate, not the sociological debate, I generally stay out of these discussions. However, if I had to speculate, I’d say that the reason libertarians are mostly men is… Continue reading Why Are Libertarians Mostly Men?
Here Come the Idiots
One of the things I am not looking forward to in the coming elections are people who become sudden experts on the Nordic Model and the social democratic history of the Nordic countries. Partisans of various stripes, uninterested in understanding how the Nordic countries actually developed, will mobilize their considerable googling skills to conclude whatever… Continue reading Here Come the Idiots