The Strawman
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
The Decade as Farce and Tragedy
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For Music , the twenty-first century began in 1999. Jordan Knight, one of the spry, ingratiating kids from the by then odious New Kids on t...
Monday, December 14, 2009
The New Geography
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One summer weekend in the not too distant past, my girlfriend at the time was traveling down from Ottawa to visit me in Waterloo, Ontario, ...
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Monday, November 09, 2009
The Fix
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Embedded in last night’s season finale of Mad Man are two parallel solutions, one commercial, and the other artistic. Much has been made ab...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
In Other Magazines
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Slate has broken my heart. They’ve decided to discontinue the “ In Other Magazines ” column.When the week came to a close “In Other Magazin...
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Notes on "Free Markets"
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I The “Free Market” isn’t really real. It never was. Even venerable classically liberal economists like David Ricardo and Adam Smith unders...
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
The Problem with Complexity
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Thomas Homer-Dixon's 2006 book The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization was a sobering diagnosis of ...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
No Hope
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IT’S DIFFICULT to quantify exactly how devastating a loss for the Democrats in the November presidential elections would be for me. As a Ca...
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