Kasky vs. Nike and the quarrelsome question of corporate free speech
When the Supreme Court of California determined in 2001 that Nike, Inc., might be accountable in a civil action for misleading statements that it made to the press and to the public about its operations in Southeast Asia labor activist, it opened a whole can of worms...
Incivility: How deep does it go?
Can’t anyone be “civil” anymore? From shout radio to the talking heads who –– for many years now ––interrupt each other on television “talk shows,” civility seems radically out of fashion, When then-candidate Donald Trump led chants of “Lock her up” or railed against...Read more
Greed is good. Greed is right. Greed works.
We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price of a paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of a hat while everybody sits around wondering how the hell we did it. Now you’re not naïve enough to think that we’re living in a democracy, are you, Buddy? It’s the free market, and you’re part of it.
— Gordon Gecko, Wall Street
