Manufacturing Dissent.
Today we take on News Corp., the most egregious example of “manufactured consent.” The fact that we let this monster from down under invade our...
F*ck Milton Friedman.
Here we are, Unf*ckers. It’s our great hope that we contextualize the Chicago school of economics and its high priest Milton Friedman by alternately...
UNFTR Behind the Scenes
Celebrating our first milestone.
Chicago School Teaser.
In this teaser essay, we do a quick recap on why the fuck we're so mad at Milton Friedman and briefly summarize prior essays that are useful primers...
The Problem with Conscious Capitalism.
Today we examine Conscious Capitalism™ as an organization (the trademarked entity) and Conscious Capitalism the movement, characterized by the...
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Cuba (Not So) Libre.
This essay of UNFTR begins with a slightly different perspective on the 1959 Revolution that has evaded most retellings in U.S. history books and...
May 2021 Quickie.
The media has been hard at work lately trying to rehabilitate the image of three significant members of the Republican Party. So we’re not going to...
The Assange Problem.
Today, we’re going to review the story of WikiLeaks and put the debate over the fate of Assange in the only context it should be—to answer the...
Corporate (Ir)Responsibility: Part Two.
We briefly recap what we covered in Part One as a refresher, then launch into some of the more egregious examples of how corporations have used their...
Corporate (Ir)Responsibility: Part One.
This week’s UNFTR delves into the movement to lower corporate tax rates that started in the late ‘70s and explains how the tax evasion shell game...
April 2021 Quickie.
In today’s Quickie, we’re taking a look at a developing phenomenon related to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In reality, it’s an age-old...
The Real Devil Made Off
See what I did there?
Mass Incarceration.
We’re back with another blood-boiling, enraging essay: Mass Incarceration and the War on Drugs. It’s a topic that has thankfully come further into...