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    Personhood

    January 14, 2021

    Critics of large corporations very often center their anger on the notion of “personhood”.  The concept gained much more notoriety after the terrible Citizen’s United case a few years back.  On the left the idea that a corporation should be a legal person has become an anathema. They are wrong.  Personhood is a valuable concept […]

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    Corporate Reckoning

    January 12, 2021

    The aftermath of a coup attempt is one of those moments when a nation gets a really serious insight into its values.  Do, for instance, its politicians rally around some higher set of principles, or do they slide quickly back into the day-to-day argy-bargy of political positioning and infighting? Ours are perilously close to the […]

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    Under Pressure

    January 11, 2021

    I am learning that it takes a while to come to terms with the trauma of an attempted coup. Various people are reacting differently depending on their state of mind prior to the attempt.  What catches my eye, given my own perspective on the role of business in society, is the pressure emerging on our […]

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