THE CONSTANT QUESTION: Is Social Security going bust?

Is Social Security going bust? Reforming pensions, revisited When LBO last visited the pension issue (issue #28), it was to argue that the push to cut back on Social Security in the U.S. was part of a generalized attack on public retirement systems around the world. Calling it a plot may be a bit conspiratorial, [...]

Baberowski’s Falsification

GF, Baberowski’s falsification 12.09.doc Baberowski’s Falsification In this essay I examine a fact claim made by Prof. Jörg Baberowski on the first page of a 2003 paper entitled “Zivilisation der Gewalt. Die kulturellen Ursprünge des Stalinismus”. (http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/humboldt-vl/136/baberowski-joerg-3/PDF/baberowski.pdf ) Baberowski occupies an important chair of history at Humboldt University, Berlin. He is one of Europe’s most [...]

Amid the smug media celebration of our "goodness", uncomfortable history

The history that “binds” the US and Haiti You won’t hear this from Katie Couric’s lips (or Diane Sawyer’s!) In his statement on the Haitian earthquake Wednesday, President Barack Obama referred to the “long history that binds us together.” Neither he nor the US media, however, have shown any inclination to probe the history of [...]

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