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About David Morris
David Morris is co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and directs its initiative on The Public Good. He is the author of New City States and four other non-fiction books. His essays on public policy are regularly published by On the Commons, Alternet, Common Dreams and the Huffington Post. More
Presidential Campaign Spending
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/presidential-campaign-spending/Source: Mother Jones Continue reading
Where is Kropotkin When We Really Need Him?
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/where-is-kropotkin-when-we-really-need-him/On February 8, 1921 twenty thousand people, braving temperatures so low that musical instruments froze, marched in a funeral procession in the town of Dimitrov, a suburb of Moscow. They came to pay their respects to a man, Petr Kropotkin, and his philosophy, anarchism. Some 90 years later few know of Kropotkin. And the word… Continue reading
Challenging the Republican’s Five Myths on Inequality
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/challenging-the-republicans-five-myths-on-inequality/Recent comments by Mitt Romney, the probable Republican nominee for President all but guarantee the inequality issue will remain front and center this election year. When asked whether people who question the current distribution of wealth and power are motivated by “jealousy or fairness” Romney insisted, “I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about… Continue reading
Why Does Archbishop Nienstedt Believe Jesus Was Obsessed With Sex and Not Injustice?
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/why-does-archbishop-nienstedt-believe-jesus-was-obsessed-with-sex-and-not-injustice/A few weeks ago John C. Nienstedt, Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis wrote a widely publicized letter to a priest threatening to strip him of his “ministerial assignments” if he spoke out against a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. In addition to banning dissent the Archbishop directed parishes to form committees to work… Continue reading
How Obama Can Guarantee a Second Term
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/how-obama-can-guarantee-a-second-term/Let me suggest a sure fire way Barack Obama can win a second term. Stand in the doorway of a post office scheduled for closing and declare, “Not on my watch.” He will be standing with tens of millions of Americans who are rising up to defend our must trusted and ubiquitous public institution. Last… Continue reading
Is the Super Bowl a Socialist Enterprise?
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/is-the-super-bowl-a-socialist-enterprise/Is the Super Bowl a socialist enterprise? Yes the language is provocative but not, I believe, inappropriate. After all Indiana, the site of the next Super Bowl, is currently governed by those who insist government should play a minimal role and the word they, and their Republican counterparts around the country use to describe those… Continue reading
What is the Moral Standing of the Catholic Church?
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/what-is-the-moral-standing-of-the-catholic-church/When a totalitarian regime aids and abets the rape of tens of thousands of children one would expect it to be shunned by governments and citizens alike. And any statements it might issue on matters of morality accorded no respect. Why should we make an exception when the regime is the Catholic Church? That the… Continue reading
Occupy Giving
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/occupy-giving/This is the giving season and we Americans are prodigious givers. Nearly two thirds of us donate to charities each year. This year we will send more than $225 billion to charities. More than a quarter of this giving will occur in December. Those are the bare facts. But this year, when the stark divide… Continue reading
Occupy Economics Departments
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/occupy-economics-departments/On November 2nd nearly 70 students walked out of an introductory economics class at Harvard in solidarity with the Occupy movement. The mainstream media largely ignored the protest. That’s regrettable since the economics profession has provided the intellectual framework and justification for the inequality and centralization of corporate power the Occupiers are challenging. “You can… Continue reading