Friday, March 23, 2018

Corporate Social Responsibility Is Not Altruistic: The Case of Amazon Prime

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In a doctoral seminar on corporate social responsibility (CSR), the professor turned to me, perhaps because by then I was also taking cours...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Is Scientology a Religion?

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I contend that other domains have encroached on religion, or religion on them, such that the native fauna in religion’s own garden is scarc...

Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook’s Unjust Strategic Leader in a Crisis

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Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook (and Instagram) “remained silent” during the two days after the data-breach scandal broke in M...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Oligarchic Social Media Companies: Willowing the Internet Unethically

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Too much power in a few hands is inherently dangerous. That goes for private as well as public, or governmental, power. In the world of soc...
Monday, March 19, 2018

The Founder of Theranos: A Flawed Charismatic Vision and Leader

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“Theranos rose quickly from being a college dropout’s idea to revolutionize the blood analysis industry to a hot tech bet that accrued $70...

Facebook: A Distrustful Company Projecting Distrust

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Cambridge Analytica, political data firm founded by Stephen Bannon and Robert Mercer, and with ties to U.S. President Trump’s 2016 campaig...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

President Trump as a “Neutral Guy” in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: On the Conflict of Interest

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In the absence of an international arbitrator with teeth, the nations of the world must at times have recourse to others in service to the ...

Gary Cohn of Goldman Sachs in the White House: A Hidden Agenda?

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Rex Tillerson, the U.S. Secretary of State fired by U.S. President Donald Trump and former CEO of Exxon, an international oil company based...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

On the Presumptuousness of Power: Does Wall Street Own Congress?

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At the end of April, 2009, U.S. Senator Richard Durbin blamed the powerful banking lobby for the defeat of legislation that would have allo...

Debating Federalism

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It could be maintained that federalism gets in the way of solving problems that are simply too important to go unsolved.  In short, the arg...

Consolidation in Russia: Federalism and Democracy at Risk

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United Russia, the party led by Prime Minister Putin, decided in August, 2010 not to submit the name of the governor of Kaliningrad, Georgy...

Federalism 101: Does Power Naturally Consolidate?

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Consolidated power seems, at least in theory, to be contrary to American political culture.   The financial consolidation even after the fi...
Monday, March 12, 2018

A Critique of Corporate Political Risk Analysis and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Case of Libya

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Even though people the world over instinctively recoiled as reports came in of Gadhafi's violent retaliation against Libyan protests on...

Political Black Holes: On the Power Behind the Throne

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Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has a black hole. If this is news to you, there is no need to go hide under a rock. It turns out our black hole ...

The American News Media: A Case of Over-Reaching?

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During the summer of 2010, as commentators at Fox, CNN, and MSNBC were arguing, they referred to their own arguments as “trench warfare” an...