Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

After six-and-a-half miserable years, it is hard to tally up the worst abuses of the Bush administration. Narrow the field, and focus only on abuses related to the economy. That’s the universe of all the favors that the Bush-Cheney cabal has done for Big Business, so it is still a very competitive contest. A case…

Michael Moore’s extraordinary SiCKO makes the case for a single-payer national health insurance system — a Medicare for All — without bogging down in detailed policy debates. Sure, there’s quite a bit of data that Moore sneaks in, but SiCKO’s basic approach is to rely on regular people telling stories about their healthcare experiences. In…

Blackstone. That is the ultimate refutation to the unbelievably brazen campaign being run by Wall Street hucksters and the knee-jerk oppositionists to law and order at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Blackstone is the giant private equity firm that, ironically, has just gone public (at least in part). Private equity firms are making headlines for…