Neoliberalism, My Way (part II)
[Note: This is the second part of a two-instalment series. You can read the first installment here. – tk] by Gabriel Conroy In the last installment, we introduced my basic concept of a new Neoliberalism, and...
Monthly Archive: October 2014
Linky Friday #86: Actual Hitler Edition
Links! This week: Hitlers, Guns, Colonization, Media, and Food!
“Unwinnable” Cultural Debates
As I’ve mentioned earlier this week, I am a big fan of Philip Roth novels. I think the Philip Roth novels capture the psyche and inner turmoil of American Jews who were too young...
Why We Need the Liberal Arts
Blake Lively is a relatively famous actor who has appeared in a TV show about horrible rich high school students behaving badly and some movie about a pair of pants that sees the world...
Paul Krugman’s Inadequate Apologetics
Obama’s record and legacy are beside the point. It’s time for liberals to move beyond the President and his conservative opposition.
Generation X and the Social Gap
Why is it so hard to maintain friendships during the early parenting years? Mike Dwyer explores the social priorities of his generation.
A Devil on Each Shoulder: Oregon’s Race for Governor
Oregon’s gubernatorial race creates an interesting electoral Kobayashi Maru test.
by Tod Kelly
Two-Thirds of Supreme Court Justices Okay With Defendant Going To Prison For A Crime He Didn’t Commit
Reason’s invaluable Hit and Run has a blog post about Jones vs. United States, a crack cocaine sentencing case. The Supreme Court has declined to hear the case and, in what is described as...
Assessing the Roberts Rule for the Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2014
The cynicism of Seth Roberts toward the Nobel Prize in Medicine seems prescient.
Privilege and Courage: A Place-Holder
I have some thoughts I’d like to share with you about the Dropbox dudebros, and medical missionaries, and privilege, and courage. But not just yet.
