On Romanticism in Politics Romanticism is wonderful in a work of fiction, art or video game. As...
Occupy Wall Street
Michael Kazin in Dissent, echoing some of my concerns in recent posts: But the meaning of liberalism...
Speaking recently at the Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia, American novelist, Jonathan Franzen, attacked what he identifies...
~by Arthur Emlen In the Fall of 1947 at the University for Foreigners in Perugia, I took a...
Tom Van Dyke’s recent post on how we’re not so good at math when it matters reminded...
Shawn writes: After facilitating at a general assembly several weeks back, one of my best friends received...
I’m glad Mike Drew wrote a guest post. Mike’s comments are consistently the ones I meditate over...
~by Michael Drew In comments, Professor James Hanley had this rebuke of the NYPD, followed by some...
Michael Drew, in the comments: First the knock was that they’d never last. Now the problem seems...
(Photo of “An empty Zuccotti Park” by @jimbradysp via Andrew Sullivan) Yesterday, Elias Isquith asked what should...
In a comment on Shawn Gude’s previous post on the main page about the Occupy movement, I...
I’m not sure where this came from originally (I found it on Facebook) but it’s pretty hilarious....
SCENE: News footage of Occupy Boston protestors getting manhandled by police comes on screen, patrons at American...
by E.C. Gach In a recent guest post, Aaron B. pointed out that the Occupy Wall Street...
~by Aaron B. Slowly but surely, the Occupy Wall Street protests are gaining the attention of the...
