Tootfinder

I often find it gut-wrenching to watch the snail’s pace at which established scientific knowledge trickles into the public consciousness.
The study of income inequality is a good example.
In 2001, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez published a landmark paper which showed, for the first time, that US top income shares had been on the rise since the 1980s.
Piketty and Saez’s work has since been replicated and expanded numerous times.
In short, scientists know that the US …

Partisan Politics and the Road to Plutocracy – Economics from the Top Down
In this essay, I take a deep dive into the history of American plutocracy and its conspicuously Republican roots.

The ancient Celts upheld values such as truthfulness, loyalty, faithfulness, generosity, hospitality, honesty, righteousness, justice, bravery and courage.
These are part of an honourable life.
We want to try something partly new, using ancient values that meet today's highest moral standards as a compass.
Why not adopt the superior habits of thought and the ancestral knowledge of the druids and go the Nua-Celtic way?
A tree without healthy roots dies and fall…