The World's Suburban Future

August 30, 2010

The rebirth of the suburb: “What if we thought more about the many possibilities for proliferating more human-scaled urban centers; what if healthy growth turns out to be best achieved through dispersion, not concentration? Instead of overcrowded cities rimmed by hellish new slums, imagine a world filled with vibrant smaller cities, suburbs, and towns.”

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Silly Season Forever

August 30, 2010

[tweetmeme] This morning, MSNBC informs us of President Obama’s response to the current economic difficulties: Look at how we’re doing our infrastructure, so that we can maximize the amount of jobs that are created. So, there are a range of steps that I hope we can get bipartisan support for. But right now, we’re still […]

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The Greatly Exaggerated Death of Reaganism

August 28, 2010

“In late October 2008, New Yorker staff writer George Packer reported ‘the complete collapse of the four-decade project that brought conservatism to power in America.’ Two weeks later, the day after Mr. Obama’s election, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne proclaimed ‘the end of a conservative era’ that had begun with the rise of Ronald Reagan.”

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The Tea Parties, Race, and the New York Times

August 28, 2010

[tweetmeme] A “political memo” from the New York Times on the issue of the Tea Parties and race includes this line (emphasis mine): In the Tea Party’s talk of states’ rights, critics say they hear an echo of slavery, Jim Crow and George Wallace. Tea Party activists call that ridiculous: they do not want to […]

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Why New Jersey's Education Snafu Could be a Blessing in Disguise

August 27, 2010

Public education is a solvable problem, and there are models for success. But we’ve never had anyone in the Education Secretary job in the modern era with the political will to do what’s necessary–and Arne Duncan is just one more guy roaming around holding the bag of money in one hand and a ream of red tape in the other.

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Progressives Against Progress

August 27, 2010

Fred Siegel: “Multiple political and economic forces paved liberalism’s path away from its mid-century optimism and toward an aristocratic outlook reminiscent of the Tory Radicalism of nineteenth-century Britain; but one of the most powerful was the rise of the modern environmental movement and its recurrent hysterias.”

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The Top Ten Beatles Songs

August 27, 2010

[tweetmeme] Rolling Stone, a legacy publication that won’t exist in a few years after the baby boomers die off and people can finally admit how terrible the last two decades of music was from all the aging rockers they so adore (RS founder Jann Wenner famously reviewed Mick Jagger’s god-awful solo album himself because he […]

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John Mayer vs. HuffPo

August 27, 2010

[tweetmeme] John Mayer’s music is terrible. Which is a shame, because the guy is actually a talented guitarist with some real ability (if you don’t believe me, watch his performance on VH1’s storytellers) — he just decided that he’d rather use his music to spread the legs of a million womenfolk (Who can blame him?), […]

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Chris Christie's Unique Appeal

August 25, 2010

[tweetmeme] Until this latest video, I don’t think I had a good example of Chris Christie’s unique appeal. This incident supplies it: what’s impressive about Christie is not that he is a capable attacker, but that he is an equally capable at the art of political deflection, one which most Republicans fail at, and miserably […]

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Noa Tishby and the World

August 25, 2010

“Israel is on the front line of a global conflict, a war that pits a medieval approach to human rights, an authoritarian way of controlling how we live, against societies built on the freedom of men and women,” Tishby says.

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