Romney’s empty suit vs. Obama’s empty chair
With the hope hoopla of the 2008 campaign a distant memory, now we have a contest between a letdown president and a vacuous challenger.
Read my spiked article in full here.
This week’s articles of note
“The unseen class war that could decide the election,” New Geography, by Joel Kotkin
“When business and government are bedfellows,” The Economist [Interview with Luigi Zingales on crony capitalism]
“Greed and debt: the true story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital,” Rolling Stone, by Matt Taibbi
“Apocalypse not: here’s ...
Enlightened liberals vs chicken-chewing morons
The Chick-fil-A controversy in America reveals just how illiberal and intolerant supporters of same-sex marriage are becoming.
Read my spiked article in full here.
This week’s articles of note
“Roberts switched vote to uphold health care law,” CBS News, by Jan Crawford
“Where the money lives,” Vanity Fair, by Nicholas Shaxson [On Mitt Romney’s personal finances]
“The LIBOR scandal: the rotten heart of finance,” The Economist
“Native tongues,” Lapham’s Quarterly, by Simon Winchester [On the making of an ...
Life, liberty…what a load of selfish nonsense!
Yesterday was the 4th of July, the day Americans celebrate the country’s independence. But the writer Kurt Andersen decided to be a party pooper, and took to the New York Times op-ed pages to bemoan “the downside of liberty”.
“The document we’re celebrating today says in its second line that axiomatic human rights ...
This week’s articles of note
“The left, the right, and the constitution,” National Review, by Yuval Levin
“Getting away with it,” New York Review of Books, by Paul Krugman and Robin Wells [Review of three books on American politics]
“Despite Obama’s policies, the Rust Belt’s revival could save his campaign,” Daily Beast, by Joel ...
Re-opening the American mind
Twenty-five years on, a re-read of Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind reveals just how wrong liberals were to hate it, and how wrong conservatives were to claim it as their ideological bible.
Read my ...
This week’s articles of note
“Hope: the sequel,” New York Magazine, by John Heilemann
“The 1 percent’s problem,” Vanity Fair, by Joseph E. Stiglitz
“Mary Meeker’s latest stunning presentation about the state of the web,” Business Insider, by Nicholas Carlson
“Is America philosophical?” The Chronicle of Higher Education, by Carlin Romano
“The Amazon effect,” ...
This week’s articles of note
“The service patch,” New York Times, by David Brooks
“Our age of anxiety,” Weekly Standard, by Yuval Levin
“The Facebook illusion,” New York Times, by Ross Douthat
“Lunch with the FT: Paul Krugman,” Financial Times. Martin Wolf interviews Krugman
“How Roland Barthes gave us the TV recap,” New York ...
ABOUT SEAN COLLINS
I write about American current affairs for Spiked, the online magazine. I am a native New Yorker, and I divide my time between New York City and upstate New York.
In addition to articles for Spiked, The Australian and other publications, I contributed an essay, "BDS: Demonizing Israel, Destroying Free Speech," for the book Unsafe Space: The Crisis of Free Speech on Campus (2016). I also wrote a chapter on New York City's economy for the book London After Recession: A Fictitious Capital? (2012).
My writings have been cited in American Conservative, Arts & Letters Daily, the Financial Times, Fox News, the Huffington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, the New York Times, Real Clear Politics, and the Times of London, among other media.
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