Joel Beverly
Reading Time: 6 minutes As we at Artemes have laid out, and the majority of you have agreed with, providing the Big 4 (food, water, housing, and healthcare) to every human, adult or a child, would be the best way to build a healthy and thriving social and economic system. On a similar note, a recent survey reveals the … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hello sports fans! We took just a bit of a break from our vision quest of figuring out exactly what type of economic world would work the best for all of us…but the halftime rest of this pandemic show is over and we’re ready to move forward in earnest. But first, a quick review of … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes I grew up in the second poorest congressional district in America. The constituents in this district also live shorter lives than in all other ones. Within this congressional district, I grew up on Georges Branch, Perry County, Kentucky. This holler is famous for being rough as a cob and historically being the best place in … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes The current looting and plundering by those that have been marginalized is coming from a space of unlove. Just as the looting and plundering by the elite and their political allies has come from a space of unlove for the past 40 years. This socio-economic rubber banding from one extreme to another has been the … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutes This is the third in a series of blogs on Economics in the Age of Pandemics. In the first blog we developed the idea that the cornerstone concept of any economic system should be human health (we did an informal poll here and this idea was overwhelmingly voted for). In the second blog we introduced … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minute Joel and Phillip Clayton discuss big questions like “Why am I here” and “what’s the point of reality?” Listen in to this enlightening conversation about ways we can help humanity find hope and direction. As a scholar, Philip Clayton (Ingraham Professor, Claremont School of Theology) works at the intersection points of science, philosophy, and theology. … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minute A record 10 million have filed for unemployment over the last two weeks. That number is expected to grow in the coming weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. No one knows how long or far this current global economic catastrophe will last or reach. These times bring up a question that is worth discussing. As … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes A record 10 million have filed for unemployment over the last two weeks. That number is expected to grow in the coming weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. No one knows how long or far this current global economic catastrophe will last or reach. These times bring up a question that is worth discussing. As … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes While perusing Facebook recently I happened upon a friend’s post concerning community. Specifically, when and how is it appropriate to work in communities that are not your own? He felt that to work in a community, you must always have a person of that community present to speak for themselves. This is a complex issue … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes For this edition of 1,000 Awakenings, we are going old school. As in back to high school. Mike Riley was one of my main running mates during those four years at Dilce Combs. We were on the academic team together, his mom was cool as shit (and thus his house was an option to stop … Read more
