AMERICAN STUDIES

ERIC SCHECHTER—A 26-minute video explaining feedback loops, exponential growth, etc. in nontechnical terms. Transcript (and links) at author’s main blog A 26-minute video explaining feedback loops, exponential growth, etc. in nontechnical terms. Transcript (and links) at http://leftymathprof.wordpress.com/

DAVID PENNER—In order to understand how the liberal class has come to be so beguiled by the forces of reaction, one must take note of the unprecedented liberal hysteria over racism, sexism, and homophobia. Indeed, the more liberals remain transfixed with this unholy trinity, the more indifferent they become to the terrible suffering inflicted by capitalism, as they are drawn further and further to the right, and pulled ever more deeply into a vortex of amorality. This is not to suggest that racism, sexism, and homophobia do not exist, but rather, that these words have been co-opted by a ruling establishment which has succeeded in duping the faux-left into embracing policies that are deeply antithetical to the interests of American workers, patients, and students.

DAVID PENNER—In many ways, the demonization of Trump serves to deflect attention away from the fact that it is the ideology of neoliberalism which has betrayed the legacies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and Martin Luther King, turning the country into a failed state. Black nationalism and white nationalism are in fact two sides of the same coin.

JODIE EVANS—Neither of the ruling parties in the United States has tried to end the electoral college and the control that it gives the elite and the billionaire class. It is three more weeks until November 3rd, the election day in the United States. Ballots are already out in California, but that doesn’t really matter because of the electoral college. 

In less than a year, this country has managed to develop two vaccines in its public research centers. A third vaccine is on the way. President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday reported on the registration of the second Russian COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology Vektor.