A Doomsday Cycle
Increase regulations or remove the safety net?
Colin Ward, R.I.P.
Jesse Walker has written a nice remembrance of the anarchist Colin Ward.
But I By Backward Steps Would Move
“The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on."
Tiger, Tiger
But what would bring Tiger back? Does anybody think he would go to confession? I mean, heck, Bill Clinton still thinks he has the moral upper hand on Ken Starr.
Think on These Things: Unexpected Sunshine in Washington
Three years ago, I could not imagine Ron Paul winning the CPAC straw poll. Now he has. The doom and gloom evoked by the rich and powerful are realities in a fallen world, but we should not fail to think about the good.
Colbert on Corporate Personhood
Does the idea of corporate personhood create a strange new god before which we prostrate ourselves?
Finger on the Scale
The American economy has been marked by a tremendous concentration of private power over the past 50 years. The only question is not whether this should be reversed, but how it should be done.
The Great Leveler: Darwin, Garrison Keillor, and Wing Bowl
Yes, a good dinner conversation is akin to chimps licking fleas off each other because it is a way of bonding and establishing relationships and hierarchies within the group.
Constitutional Kookiness
For years, two-faced Republican demagogues have served up phony-baloney about how much they love little country churches, Norman Rockwell paintings, and old-fashioned American life, even while they were simultaneously encouraging government...
“Spiritual, Not Religious”
What we need today is not a generation that is “spiritual, not religious.” I would argue that what is needed is the studied capacity to be “religious, not spiritual."