Social Security in the United States refers directly to the lesser known federal Old Age, Victim, and Disability Insurance program or OASDI. The program was originally launched in the 1930s in an attempt to limit what were seen as dangers to the American way of life such as increased life expectancy, poverty, and orphans. So the Social Security Act, signed in […]

Clive Hamilton’s Quarterly Essay, “What’s Left? The Death of Social Democracy” provides a scathing critique of ALP, and the politics of “aspiration” and endless economic expansion that dominate the realm of political thought and government. Hamilton argues emphatically that the “deprivation model” that fueled social democratic thinking for much of the 20th century is now irrelevant, as a result of […]