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Depression is the most common mental health condition. What do we know about its symptoms, severity and how these are measured?

The traditional Marxist definition of surplus value holds that labor markets are inherently exploitative, and that the purchase of labor leads to an unfair return (profit) on behalf of the purchaser. Few mainstream economists would accept this concept of “surplus value” in the modern era, and yet it proceeds to have an influence on dominant…

[…] previous posts here, I’ve argued that “cancel culture” is fake news–an ideological confabulation devised by the Right to… I now realize that I have been wrong, and wish to recant. Cancel culture certainly does ex…

In previous posts here, I’ve argued that “cancel culture” is fake news–an ideological confabulation devised by the Right to discredit the Left, which is usually “credited” with having created “cancel culture.” I now realize that I’ve been deeply wrong, and wish to recant. Cancel culture certainly does exist, just not in the way its usual…

Thanks, Irfan. I think expressing gratitude counts as a way of giving (deserved) credit — for both insisting that I write this point down and for inserting the “read more” in the post and correcting to ‘ch. 4’. (l, inexcus…