The Imperial City And The World
Americans finally talk about the elephant in the room. Obama is infatuated with detachment and rhetoric. We called that one since 2007. Still, what took Progressives and Liberals -- now 6 years after the fact -- so long? Tout le monde now … [Continue reading]
Events in Boston last week illustrate how technology shapes our personal identity. And how little we understand the process. Boston shows us a foretaste of the new tribalism that relies on ephemeral situations and adrenalin to create a sense of … [Continue reading]
Enough time has passed since the election for us to ask "What precisely has been learned?" Unsurprisingly and unfortunately, "Not much". Our politics remain inert and non-enrolling because there aren't any, aside from the febrile paroxysms … [Continue reading]
Pop culture fascination with the covert continues to crest. Under Bush besides the torture porn of '24', NCIS began its long run exalting 'warfighters' and hierarchical obediance. We endured the Bournes' editing and celebrated a more brutal Bond. … [Continue reading]
Striking how today's Washington deficit and debt debates echo Continental arguments and policies in the 1920s and 1930s. As before, Malthusian linear extrapolation of today's circumstances leads to a cataclysmic future. Ideology and epistemology … [Continue reading]