This is a crisis of the state as well as the market
Some good books were written in the immediate aftermath of the financial crash in 2008 and 2009 – but those authors who spent more time reflecting before writing offer us the best insights.
The latest spiked review ...
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 ...
2010’s Heroes and Zeroes
Today’s spiked reviews the year 2010 with a series of articles.
In the lead article, “A year of intellectual rebels and misanthropic moaners,” spiked readers and writers name their heroes and zeroes of the year. Here are mine:
HERO: Diane Ravitch, whose bestselling book The Death and Life of the Great American School ...
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 ...
The tax deal: short-term victory for Obama
The big news in American politics recently has been the surprising tax deal President Obama made with the Republicans in Congress.
Tax cuts introduced in 2001 and 2003 during the George W. Bush presidency were positioned at that time as “temporary”, and were due to expire at the end of this ...
Starting to get in the Christmas spirit…
Bruce and the E-Street Band (London, 2007).
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, ...
NASA’s amazing discovery of alien life – in California
When NASA announced last week that it had a new discovery “which would impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life,” the media clamored for details. But when the space agency finally unveiled the news that it had found alien life in the form of a microbe with previously-unknown DNA that that ...
Palin: a creation of the liberal-left
I have argued for some time that the prominence of Sarah Palin reflects mainly liberals’ fascination with her (see here) .
Liberals have obsessively followed this ex-governor, ex-VP candidate, and consequently built her up into something ...
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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