Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Climate Capitalism

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It’s fair to say that the world as we currently know it, is unsustainable: The increasing demand for water, oil and other natural resources...
Monday, June 13, 2011

A real sporting life

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Long long before Title 9, before Billy Jean King, or Brandi Chastain, at a time during the first half of the 20th century, when women athlet...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

Mexico and the Mexicans

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Regardless of where we are on the issue of immigration, legal or illegal, our relationship with Mexico and our understanding of the Mexican ...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

It's the sex, stupid

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As we face bigger and bigger issues in America..a burgeoning deficit, stagnant job growth, eduction falling behind, failing and decaying inf...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

They Lie!!

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From Anthony Weiner to Martha Stewart to Scooter Libby to Barry Bonds...they all lie. Do we have an epidemic of perjury today? Pulitzer Priz...
Monday, June 6, 2011

What if your brain was hacked?

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Along with all the other social divisions we face today, we live in a bifurcated society with respect to technology. On the one hand, we ri...
Friday, June 3, 2011

An Internet Just For You

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For a lot of you it may feel very special to know that Amazon, and Netflix and Apple and Gilt and Google tailor their results just for you. ...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Portraits of Power

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                                                      Scott Fitzgerald said that "the rich are different." So too a...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Solving the impossible

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Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld used to say that the best solution to an intractable problem, was to create a bigger problem. That...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

Andrew Sullivan brilliantly explains why Barack is a man of hope and Bibi a man of fear

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Rick Hertzberg  offers  us a graceful, if pessimistic, guide. Money quote: The President wants to make peace and presumably knows that it wo...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Khan Academy transforms education

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Since John Dewey laid out the predicate for broad scale societal education, at the turn of the last century, things have remained pretty muc...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Our search for safety, our loss of liberty.

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Benjamin Franklin said that "those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty no...
Friday, May 13, 2011

The Accidental Sportswriter

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The legendary Howard Cosell once said of sports, that it was "the toy department of human life." In fact, it is perhaps our most ...