The Gramblinite
Friday, May 3, 2024
Nasir Ahmed The American dream is becoming difficult to achieve, if you are not born rich. A country, where anyone can be anything, looks like a dying dream. The income and wealth inequality is so stacked against the average person, the talented kids are not coming from the average background […]
Public policy is an important part of a nation’s overall wellbeing. A civilized society is judged by the quality of its public policies. Historically, the Western countries have come across better in comparison to the Non-Western countries, because they could produce more meaningful and useful public policies for their citizens. […]
Whatever we have heard so far about the current and future budget cuts in higher education in Louisiana might as well be true. Economic crisis has engulfed the United States for last two years and is generating desperation and hopelessness. Higher education in Louisiana had been under tremendous challenges in […]
#8220;…if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties-if that is what they mean by a […]
Of course one needs to have sufficient knowledge and courage to ask the right questions. Sometimes people get so carried away by media and existing socio-cultural norms that they just can’t think clearly, and as a result can’t ask the right questions. It got into my mind pretty intensely when […]
The Middle Kingdom is flexing its muscle – figuratively and historically. During the Beijing Olympics 2008, the world saw a fantastic act of China’s formidable dominance in the Olympic sports and hence on the world at large. In 1948, China, under the brilliant leadership of Chairman Mao Zedong, began it’s […]
American political scene was waiting for a rock star. And they got it. His name is Barack Obama. Rather an unusual name by American standard. Majority of the Americans are so demoralized by failed Bush policies; the emergence of Obama was like the arrival of spring time after a long, […]
Capitalists in America are in the forefront of the free market economy. The basic idea under this platform of philosophy is that the market is self-regulatory. Adam Smith’s famous “invisible hand” is considered as the most supporting philosophical tool for capitalism. Market economy believes the notion of demand and supply […]
Martin Luther King Jr. was martyred 40 years ago. Now is the time for Americans to take an account of Martin’s dream. MLK’s dream, and his lifelong struggle, was to create a new America based on the principle of fairness – for every citizen to have reasonable access to food, […]
Guest columnist The most populous nations in the world are taking their due place in the affairs of the world – at last. Since their independence in the 1940s, both India and China are pursuing self-reliant policies to move forward economically, politically and culturally. Almost exclusively, all the developing countries […]