He was also the Great Deregulator.” T here is little we can say about former President Jimmy Carter—who will lie in state in ...

Reviving a Merion West tradition, I present here a list, though not a ranking, of some of my favorite articles that Merion ...

“Doom is there staring, everywhere/I go, like a brazen coyote/dead center of the road/half-starved so it doesn’t care anymore ...

In the remainder of his response, Block leaves aside the specifics of political economy (and thus the vast majority of what I wrote) to riff about egalitarianism as a general moral impulse. Much of ...

“The hand drops a fresh globe/into the scoured skull, secures breath upon/the hemispheric nostrils and stands back,/appraising…” ...

“Similarly distinct from the regular life-world is the world of academic theory, in which, as in the fantasy world, theoretical constructs are often divorced from any dependency on practical outcomes.

“Capitalism has done much to develop the economic machinery of the modern world to the point where all of this is possible. But it is long since time to move past the capitalist phase of our history ...

In A Rupture in the Interiors, Valerie Witt, while boldly experimental in form, gives us more to go on than either Howe or ...

“According to that tried and true statement, ‘wealthier is healthier.’ Free enterprise leads to greater wealth and, thus, to greater health and longevity, ceteris paribus.” “I’m a democratic socialist ...

Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...