For the People

The United States likes to think of itself as exceptional. And it should. This is a country founded on what were then uniquely different ...

Over the last few days, we have been examining the social contract between government and society through the lens of Maslow’s Hierarchy....

Dictators rise to power – and stay there – by taking one of two roads. The first is by military means. The second is by getting elected (...

In his 1796 farewell address to the nation at the end of his second term as President, George Washington spoke out against what he saw as...

Yesterday – May 8, 2020 – we celebrated the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day. It was a very timely reminder of how one gene...

Why is modern-day America so willing to disregard facts and science in the service of conspiracies and cult thinking? Why does our techno...

In the past couple of days we have examined how both health and economic security were severely compromised in this country even before C...

Yesterday I argued that the Economic Social Contract in the US is broken, if it ever really existed in the last forty years. But that doe...

In a democracy, the intrinsic contract between government and the electorate is that government will use its resources, sourced from taxp...

Is there such a thing as an Economic Social Contract? Is it government’s obligation to provide for the economic security of its citizens?...

There is no doubt that there were catastrophic errors of judgment by the US government in terms of readying the country’s health system t...

Simon Chadwick Author of “For The People: A Citizen’s Manifesto to Shaping Our Nation’s Future” There are two paths to dictatorship – the...

If you have come this far, it suggests to me that you may be as concerned as I am about the direction in which our country is moving. We ...