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Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for 2011!
I’d like to thank everyone for reading and commenting on The American Situation since its launch in March. Here’s hoping you enjoy the holiday season to the full, and that you take it to the next level in 2011. I’ll be back on January 3rd.
2010’s best articles
There were many excellent articles published during the course of 2010. It is hard to choose the best, but here are my top 10 (in alphabetical order by the author’s last name). I’m not saying I agree with everything in these articles, but they were definitely thought-provoking and addressed important issues of our time. “What good is […]
This week’s articles of note
“Person of the Year 2010: Mark Zuckerberg,” Time, by Lev Grossman “Left out,” The American Interest, by Francis Fukuyama “The President and the passions: has Obama misunderstood the psychology of politics?” The New York Times Magazine, by Mark Lilla “How a different America responded to the Great Depression,” Pew Research Center, by Jodie T. Allen [Hat […]
This week’s articles of note
“Demography vs. geography: understanding the political future,” The American, by Joel Kotkin “‘People want to be part of the story,'” Financial Times. Simon Schama interviews Arianna Huffington “Jamie Dimon: America’s least-hated banker,” The New York Times Magazine, by Roger Lowenstein “The crisis of the American intellectual,” The American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead “What I’ve […]
This week’s articles of note
“What does it mean to be a liberal today?” The Independent. Sarah Boyes interviews Frank Furedi “Things fall apart,” The American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead “The doom boom: religious roots of environmental Armageddon,” Chronicle of Higher Education, by Michael Ruse “Africa needs aid, not flawed theories,” Wall Street Journal, by Bill Gates; and “Africa […]
This week’s articles of note
“A house that Murdoch bought,” The National Interest, by Conrad Black [Review of three books on the newspaper industry] “What good is Wall Street?” The New Yorker, by John Cassidy “Chomsky: ‘The business elites… are instinctive Marxists,'” truthout, by Keane Bhatt “The answer is no,” New York Magazine, by Jason Zengerle [Profile of New Jersey […]
A liberal contempt for the land of the free
For all the praise heaped on Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel Freedom, it actually reveals the people-hating, anti-freedom essence of the modern liberal mindset. Read my review, in the spiked review of books, here.
This week’s articles of note
“The future of free speech,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, by Tim Wu “What sparked the Tea Party movement,” National Journal, by Michael Hirsh “The Palin network,” The New York Times Magazine, by Robert Draper “Start-up city,” City Journal, by Edward L. Glaeser “Neuroeconomics: in Oxytocin we trust,” Big Think, by John Cookson “Students are […]
This week’s articles of note
“Live by the movement, die by the movement,” The New Republic, by Sean Wilentz “Inside the Gates Foundation,” Financial Times, by Gideon Rachman “Let’s banish nudges and bans,” Huffington Post, by Alan Miller “Dirty coal, clean future,” The Atlantic, by James Fallows “My endless New York,” New York Times, by Tony Judt “Life, liberty and the […]
This week’s articles of note
“Heartland headache,” National Journal, by Ronald Brownstein “The myth of charter schools,” The New York Review of Books, by Diane Ravitch [review of the film Waiting for “Superman”] “Liberal paternalism gets public and private the wrong way around,” Reuters, by Frank Furedi “Conflict or cooperation? Three visions revisited,” Foreign Affairs, by Richard K. Betts “American […]