What is going on in the Just Third Way and related areas around the world? Your guess is as good as ours. We only know what we read in the paper . . . if there are any of those left, that is. Does anyone read newspapers anymore? One news item we would like to see but haven’t yet is to see some country adopt: the Economic Democracy Act:
THE Global Justice Movement Website
This is the "Global Justice Movement" (dot org) we refer to in the title of this blog.
Friday, February 6, 2026
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
How to Understand Money
In the introduction to one of his satiric songs written for the late, great show That Was the Week That Was (“TW3”) performed and recorded at the late, great “Hungry I” nightclub in San Francisco (the one that closed in 1970, not the strip club that replaced it . . . sort of), the late, great Tom Lehrer made the obvious and characteristic (“Seldom has any point to make except the obvious”) ironic comment that his Christmas Carol celebrated what everyone deeply and sincerely believes in: Money. Of course, St. Paul made a similar comment in one or other of his letters to somebody or other, that love of money is the root of all evil.
Monday, February 2, 2026
JTW Podcast: Logical Fallacies, Part II: Most Commonly Used Fallacies
This week we conclude our look at people’s favorite way of arguing today: the logical fallacy. Again, this should be very useful for proponents of the Just Third Way — both to show them what to avoid and what to expect. As Professor Dave says, “We just learned about formal and informal fallacies. Now it's time to go through a list of the most common types of fallacies, so that we can be familiar with as many of them as possible. These would be things like the No True Scotsman fallacy, ad populum fallacy, ad hominem, poisoning the well, genetic fallacy, begging the question, straw man fallacy, and many others. Let's see how many we can get through!”:
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