"No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising rema…"

"I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. "Well, I don't un…"

"What these tests tell employers about potential employees is hard to imagine, since the "right" answers should be obv…"

"In the new version of the law of supply and demand, jobs are so cheap — as measured by the pay — that a worker is enc…"

"Maybe it's low-wage work in general that has the effect of making you feel like a pariah. When I watch TV over my din…"

"At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too …"

"If low-wage workers do not always behave in an economically rational way, that is, as free agents within a capitalist…"

"The appropriate emotion is shame — shame at our own dependency, in this case, on the underpaid labor of others. When …"

"(War) has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to th…"

"our incestuous fixation on combat with our own kind has left us ill prepared to face many of the larger perils of the…"