The Capitalist Crack-Up
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 10th, 2011 4:36 am by HL
The Capitalist Crack-Up
Fitzgerald, by then deep into an inglorious relationship with Gin Rickeys, was lucid enough, in 1936, to explain that “all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work – the…
Turkey Is Trying To Save Israel From Itself
Roger Cohen has a great column in today’s Times. It is about the sheer idiocy of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s refusal to apologize for the killings on the Mavi Marmara relief ship. (It also addresses President Obama’s complete indifference to the…
George Soros on Our Failing Public Sphere
As we try to make sense of the Republican presidential candidates’ debate, and of Barack Obama’s long belated, once-bumped, high-stakes speech on jobs – it might help to read “George Soros’ frightening assessment of the American public sphere. Too few…