by Nick Gier Trump’s apparent economic success to date mostly reflects fortunate timing. —The Economist, Nov. 11, 2017 Trump is an unprincipled and ill-informed guy who can be flattered, bribed, or simply fooled into giving [foreign leaders] what they want.…
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Biden’s State Dinner Guest Has Blood on His Hands
Biden’s State Dinner Guest Has Blood on His Handsby Nick Gier There will be a deafening silence when it comes to the human rights crisis in India. —Sen. Bernie Sanders, Narendra Modi’s 2019 visit On February 27, 2002, a train…
India has Elected its First Fascist Prime Minister
By Nick GierCitizens in the largest democracy in the world went to the polls over the last five weeks. A record 66 percent of the 814 million eligible voters turned out, and handed the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
Denmark Leads the World in Wind Power
by Nick Gier Danish Social Democracy and “The Third Way” PDF A Denmark Retrospective: Fond Memories for Me and 41 Years of Socio-Economic Progress for the Danes PDF By Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho(ngier006∂gmail.com) When I used to drive Interstate…
THE GREAT TRAIN WRECK: PRIVATIZING BRITISH RAIL Let’s Be Pragmatic, however, about Private vs. Public Ownership By Nick Gier (ngier006∂gmail.com) It is beyond dispute, in all respects, the scheme [privatizing British Rail] has failed, and failed spectacularly. —Brendan Martin, international…
JESUS AS SUFFERING SERVANT
by Nick Gier excerpted from N. F. Gier, God, Reason, and the Evangelicals (University Press of America, 1987), chapter 8. Webpages.uidaho.edu/ngier/gre8.htm.) The identity of the Servant in Second Isaiah has occupied scores of scholars for many decades. The proposed candidates…
The Savior Archetype
by Nick Gier Adapted from N. F. Gier, “The Savior Archetype,” Journal of Dharma 4 [1979], pp. 255-267, with additions and deletions. “He who knows me as the unborn, as the beginningless, as the Supreme Lord of all the worlds…
North Idaho College Threatened by GOP Take-Over
by Nick Gier published in Moscow-Pullman Daily News (9/3/22) I’m battling the NIC “deep state” on an almost daily basis. We are registering victories and will register more wins. — Todd Banducci Todd Banducci, county Republican leader and former chair…
The Founders were Woke: Why Aren’t You?
by Nick Gier The pure conservative is fighting against the progress of the universe. —Alfred North Whitehead The Buddha (the “Awakened One”) was woke. Jesus was woke. The Greek and Roman philosophers were woke. Medieval Islamic philosophers were woke.…