How White Working Class Culture Shaped American Politics
Saul DeGraw offers up some blunt talk to those who say that’s what they want from their leaders.
Do Cheap Oil Prices Really Damage the Environment?
Declining oil prices would suggest disaster for the environment but is that really the case?
Linky Friday #57
Burt Likko fills in for Will Truman for this week’s aggregation of dozens of links to themed web randomness!
The Problem with the Public vs. Private Distinction in Education
Allison Benedikt accuses her colleagues who send their kids to private school for turning their backs on the promise of public education.
The Child-Free Generation’s Hard Bargain With Capitalism
Flip through a few American newspapers and magazines, and it’s hard not to come to the conclusion that there’s a cultural obsession with fertility. (“Where Have All The Babies Gone?” “America’s Baby Bust.” “More Babies, Please.”) Against the backdrop of a never-ending, wheel-spinning conversation about work-family balance, there are stories like this New York Times…
Chase the Economy but Don’t Lose Sight of Immigration
I want to elaborate on something Elias touches on in his recent Salon piece. Declaring the Republican Party paralyzed by their on strategy of obstructionist nihilism, Elias explains,
“Girls be making HBO shows, am I right?”
This gives a brief (if overly patronizing and insensitive) summary of what bothered me about HBO’s new show: Girls. I didn’t know much about it going in, other than I was pretty excited. Anyone who’s been watching Game of Thrones has probably seen a trailer for it in the last month, and the pilot finally aired…
Troubleshooting Inequality
In the past quarter-year or so, the economic news for the United States has been unpredictable. The end of 2011 and the very beginning of 2012 brought reports of sustained if not extraordinary growth, but it was the jobs numbers that inspired so many to once again adopt the cautious optimism that was so premature…
Characters And Records: Defining The President In 2012
Hey, wow, it’s Joe Klein and he’s being almost completely right about something:
freeing the country from the credit trap
I’m sure many of you have had your fill of new perspectives on the financial crisis and the conditions that led to it; I thought I had, too. But I find the piece “Infinite Debt” by Thomas Geoghegan to be absolutely essential reading. Harpers gates it’s content for subscribers only, but this video interview with…
