Fortunate Son
A great anti-war song, one with balls. A great song period. This is the original version from Creedence Clearwater Revival, performed live on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1969.
This week’s articles of note
“Disaster not averted,” The New Republic, by Dean Baker
“Obama’s ratings,” National Journal, by Ronald Brownstein
“California’s green jihad,” Forbes, by Joel Kotkin
“Evolution: Darwin’s city,” Nature, by Emma Maris
“Man is not cat food,” Los Angeles Review of Books, by Barbara Ehrenreich [Review of five books on animals ...
Weiner: what a rubbish sex scandal
The Anthony Weiner incident shows that politicians are now so lame that they don’t even do scandal well.
Read my spiked article in full here.
Not the only Weiner
How to describe Anthony Weiner? Creepy, pathetic, cringe-inducing… but even those words seem too generous.
For those outside the US who haven’t followed this story (or Americans who have been living in a cave), let me briefly provide ...
“Mediscare”: the US politics of fear
The debate over Medicare shows that both Republicans and Democrats now rely on panic over principle.
Read my spiked article in full here.
New York City’s “Department of Moral Guidance”
New Yorker covers are usually very good, but this week’s is especially so. The drawing, by Bruce McCall, is called “Moral Guidance”. It depicts three ...
This week’s articles of note
“The end of history man,” Financial Times [Francis Fukuyama interviewed by Martin Wolf]
“The future of innovation: can America keep pace?” Time, by Fareed Zakaria
“Excuses, excuses: a litany of special factors exposes the recovery’s fragility,” The Economist
“Everything you’ve heard about fossil fuels may be wrong,” Salon, by Michael ...
My review of The Social Animal is published in Sweden
Voltaire, a Sweden-based political/cultural online magazine, has re-published my review of David Brooks’ The Social Animal.
If you can read Swedish, you can read it here.
The “Mediscare” election: both parties are running on fear
Last week the Democrats scored an upset victory in a special election in New York’s 26th district, which encompasses the upstate territory between Buffalo and Rochester. Republicans were supposed to be on the upswing since the midterm elections held just six months ago, and the seat has been Republican since ...
This week’s articles of note
“The Osama Bin Laden exception,” Salon, by Glenn Greenwald
“Jerry Brown’s last stand,” New York Times Magazine, by Adam Nagourney
“The 4 percent solution: promoting growth, not reducing debt, is the key to restoring prosperity,” National Review, by James K. Glassman
“Top green admits: ‘We are lost!’,” The American ...
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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