The myth of free trade

| February 6, 2008

NWOU recently came across a nice article by Chalmers Johnson reviewing the work of Ha-Joon Chang, an economist at Cambridge University who specializes in Third World studies. Ha-Joon Chang is a Korean economist and author of Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002). Chang drew his theoretical orientation from German economist Friedrich […]

Nineteenth-century genocides

| January 12, 2008

Genocide is an important topic at NWOU. The Hidden Masters Who Rule the World exposes the ideological roots of genocide in Marxism, Darwinism, and eugenics. The Communists committed the greatest genocides, but the imperialist powers have also directed genocides. One aspect of this history involves nineteenth-century colonial genocides, which we did not discuss in The […]

Wendell Barry, philosopher of localism

| December 30, 2007

If we manage to turn our politics away from globalism toward localism, Wendell Barry will have something to say to us. Dan Simmons has a long piece on Barry in his August 2007 message, http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message.htm. Click on the “past messages” link at the top right of that page to browse through Dan’s other messages.