Increase regulations or remove the safety net?
February 2010
“The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant’s shoulder to mount on.”
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.
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.
Does the idea of corporate personhood create a strange new god before which we prostrate ourselves?
Traver’s books bear the stamp of a true localist: admiration for independent people, a suspicion of government and “progress” (Traver opposed construction of the Mackinac Bridge, which men made to join what God had put asunder), and especially a pervasive anti-militarism.
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.
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.
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-subsidized corporations to steamroll Mom & Pop businesses and turn main streets into chain-store strip-malls.
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.”
The attorney representing four of the Americans who were being held in Haiti on kidnapping charges is FPR’s Caleb Stegall.
Obama’s energy initiatives offer little change, and less hope. Large nuclear plants with massive power grids are no solution.
David Brooks on the meritocracy: good critique, bad conclusion.
Less happy for mother is the reality that the single soul, resulting from this communion of two bodies, receives nourishment from single-malt.
Whatever else you make of Facebook friendship, it underscores the great and significant discrepancy between: 1) the scale of contemporary life, and 2) the scale of friendship.
