The shortcomings of social media would not bother me awfully if I did not suspect that Facebook friendship and Twitter chatter are displacing real rapport and real conversation, just as Gutenberg’s device displaced remembering. The things we may be unlearning, tweet by tweet — complexity, acuity, patience, wisdom, intimacy — are things that matter.
The Twitter Trap – NYTimes.com
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The War (On Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs, however, is where the Bill of Rights goes to die.
The War (On Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs, however, is where the Bill of Rights goes to die.
The War on Drugs v. the Constitution : Lawyers, Guns & Money
Our next holders of state power might end up being chosen by a minority that seems to stand for very little—or, perhaps, for nothing at all.
Our next holders of state power might end up being chosen by a minority that seems to stand for very little—or, perhaps, for nothing at all.
The Trouble With Independents | The New Republic
According to the IMF forecast, whomever is elected U.S. president next year — Obama? Mitt Romney? Donald Trump? — will be the last to preside over the world’s largest economy.
According to the IMF forecast, whomever is elected U.S. president next year — Obama? Mitt Romney? Donald Trump? — will be the last to preside over the world’s largest economy.
IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end Brett Arends\’ ROI – MarketWatch
Noam Chomsky told a sold-out Mackey Auditorium crowd in Boulder Friday night, “Richard Nixon was our last liberal president.” No doubt – American politics has slid so far to the right in my lifetime that were he alive today, Nixon would be too liberal to even get nominated. By the Democrats.
Noam Chomsky told a sold-out Mackey Auditorium crowd in Boulder Friday night, “Richard Nixon was our last liberal president.” No doubt – American politics has slid so far to the right in my lifetime that were he alive today, Nixon would be too liberal to even get nominated. By the Democrats.
Conservatives, Progressives and the future of representative democracy: what would an American Parliament look like? | Scholars and Rogues