source* I’ve had my criticisms of Adam Davidson’s reporting (such as here and here) but I do think he gets this one just about right: Art is often valuable precisely because it isn’t a sen… more →
occasional links & commentarywrote 30 minutes ago: 1. Nick J. Sciullo, Social Justice in Turbulent Times: Critical Race Theory and Occupy Wall Street, … more →
wrote 13 hours ago: Sunday is the local Pride Parade, and events leading up to it have been going on for a week and a ha … more →
wrote 14 hours ago: The Way We Never Were: American Families And The Nostalgia Trap |BUY HERE by Stephanie Coontz Americ … more →
wrote 15 hours ago: She’s old. Well, old-er. But you want to be open-minded. Tolerant. Inclusive. You don’t … more →
wrote 17 hours ago: While some income inequality is generally considered necessary in a free market economy, extreme ine … more →
wrote 21 hours ago: Two of the most harmful arrangements in Western countries today are school monopoly and third party … more →
wrote 23 hours ago: Posted by Jean-Pierre Tranchant As part of our study on violence-prone neighbourhoods described by m … more →
wrote 1 day ago: In the latest news and analysis… The in-crowd Stockholm University’s Ian Richardson suggests that th … more →
wrote 1 day ago: It’s been a while since i’ve wrote anything, I have been focused on other things that ar … more →
wrote 1 day ago: I woke up this morning with an unusual clarity of thought, and I think I can now explain my aversion … more →
wrote 1 day ago: The economy and jobs is an obsessive priority in society and its politics, at least in places where … more →
wrote 1 day ago: In Part I of this post I discussed power laws and how they describe the distribution of wealth and i … more →
wrote 1 day ago: Here’s a round up of news, analysis & opinion on developments on the Continent these past … more →
wrote 1 day ago: Why women need to ask for equal pay is mind-boggling, but it’s something that needs to be done … more →
wrote 1 day ago: I can’t stand the way “middle-class” is used to describe any person or group that … more →
wrote 1 day ago: Making the big time in politics, New Zealand: Hekia Parata gets her cartoon portrait tribute this we … more →
wrote 1 day ago: For Ed Miliband, Britain’s Labour opposition leader, income inequality is social mobility’s ‘evil tw … more →
wrote 1 day ago: Recently I found this rather intelligent discussion of inequality issues in the United States. John … more →
wrote 2 days ago: Tim DeChant’s PerSquareMile blog has an striking post illustrating how neighborhoods tree cano … more →