Sep 19, 2008 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
It is true that we no longer have a culture of leisure, in which thought and writing were violent and pleasurable. And our leisure now is no more than the charnel-house where dead time is born. And now you could read... Red Brocade You, dead, are so much better than...
Aug 29, 2008 | Campaigns, Non-Fiction |
With the exception of preventing war, this is the greatest challenge our country will face during our lifetimes. The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It is a problem we will not solve in the next few years, and it is...
Aug 18, 2008 | Geekery, Non-Fiction |
Granovetter was interested in how ideas spread through communities, and argued that weak ties between individuals are more important than strong ties for the broad dissemination of information. His argument is fairly simple (though backed by considerable data and...
Jul 20, 2008 | Non-Fiction |
Looking around at the ornaments, it is only too easy for people from another background and a different system of values to dismiss these things as kitsch. Plastic and plaster, bright colours, not a single flower that is real. Yet to think in terms of kitsch is simply...
Apr 8, 2008 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. And now you could read......
Apr 4, 2008 | Non-Fiction |
How refreshing it would be if a presidential candidate reminded us of the experience of the New Deal and defied the corporate elite as Roosevelt did, on the eve of his 1936 re-election. Referring to the determination of the wealthy classes to defeat him, he told a...
