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A Contrarian View of Inequality
If there is a central political principle that organizes what little policy debate there is in this election it seems to be centered around the idea…
9 years, 6 months ago
Are the Mexican Drug Wars a Kind of Disneyland for Teenage Boys?
Part mythology and part the result of the current Presidential campaign, we have this image of the US/Mexican border as divided territory. We hear …
9 years, 6 months ago
Greil Marcus explains Bob Dylan
For any music to be successful, there must be that special bond between performer and listener. Perhaps nowhere has that bond been stronger then in …
9 years, 6 months ago
How Nice This Would Be Today!
Back in 1960, in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, the world took note of the decadence of life in the Italian capital of Rome. Inspired by two major politi…
9 years, 6 months ago
Why Presidential Staff Matter
Because we are in the midst of a heated presidential campaign, we know that much coverage goes to the people around the candidate. We want to know …
9 years, 6 months ago
When Good People Get Caught Up in Racial Cleansing
It is the original sin of America. 240 years later the issue of race still animates a significant portion of political and social discourse in this…
9 years, 7 months ago
Why Acceleration Equals Anger
We throw around a lot of words and ideas about technology, about disruption, about progress and about the impact of technology in speeding up our li…
9 years, 7 months ago
I Wonder Who's Kissinger Now?
Few modern day political figures have had more written about them than Henry Kissinger. From his own three volume, almost 4000 page memoir, to scor…
9 years, 7 months ago
How Well Do We Really Know Our Parents?
No matter how close or estranged any of us may be for our parents, there always linger the questions of how well do we know them...that is really kn…
9 years, 7 months ago
Where Is The Truth We Have Lost In Information?
We are awash in information. Estimates are that 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are produced every day. That’s everything from data from space probe…
9 years, 7 months ago