At Prawfs, Marc DeGirolami writes about the “uniqueness of usury” (with several comments by yours truly):
“Usury—the practice of lending money at interest—occupies an unusual place as a historical phenomenon: it is a practice that is condemned in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions (to greater and lesser degrees), but forms the foundational bedrock of modern capitalist societies. Is there any other practice about which this can be said?”
At Informed Comment, Juan Cole wonders why “corporate mass media (especially television) did not treat the Chilean mine collapse as a labor story but rather as a feel-good human interest story.”
And this morning I learned that a nearby city, Camarillo, is planning to privatize its public library! I’m still grappling with the horrors associated with the privatization of prisons and now this!
Comments