Some conservatives see all these fact-laden critiques of our various GOP manufactroversies (see Ryan, Paul) and wonder where are the Democratic plans to solve the financial crisis? (I have been asked this, […]
Welcome to the neighborhood, Saif
Dear Saif— Hey, it turns out that we’re neighbors! Isn’t that great? Not really neighbors, exactly, like living down the street or something, but we do live in the same part of […]
The Contract from on America (by Paul Szep)
PhilanthroCapitalism – Why giving won't save the world
You’ll recall how, when George W Bush stood for re-election as US president back in 2004, outraged Europeans organised petitions and marches to demand that Americans vote for someone else. And then, […]
Amusing ourselves to death, circa 2010
This is the future – people, translated as data. – Bryce, Network 23 The future has always interested me, even when it scares me to death. I wrote a doctoral dissertation that […]
Constitution 2.0: money talks and bullshit walks
Bad attitude and strange bedfellows at the dawn of the Reich, and What Would Hunter Do, anyway? Ever since five members of the Supreme Court declared the Constitution unconstitutional yesterday morning I’ve […]
Take a tea partier to bed to save American democracy
Never thought I’d invite a member of the Tea Party to join political forces with me. But it’s going to take an odd and broad coalition of folks who comprise “We the […]
Predicting the 21st Century: Nostraslammy's ten-year review
Ten years ago, at the turn of the millennium, Nostraslammy took a stab at predicting the 21st Century, with a promise to check back every ten years to see how the prognostications […]
Democracy & Elitism 4: equality, opportunity and leveling up the playing field
Part 4 in a series. Pulitzer- and Emmy-winner William Henry‘s famous polemic, In Defense of Elitism (1994), argues that societies can be ranked along a spectrum with “egalitarianism” on one end and “elitism” […]
Holiday gifts that make a difference: Good Gifts and Farm Africa
One of the things we have done in Christmases past is to check out the Good Gifts catalog here in the UK. And it turns out that you can do this online […]
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