This week’s articles of note
“Afghan women and the return of the Taliban,” Time, by Aryn Baker
“What the Great Recession has done to family life,” New York Times Magazine, by Judith Warner
“The crisis of middle-class America,” Financial Times, by Edward Luce
“The key lesson of the BP oil spill? Don’t panic,” spiked, ...
Behavioralism leads to “monkeynomics”
Laurie Santos from Yale University in a TED talk that looks for ...
This is a “digital deluge”, not the Pentagon Papers
Some are comparing Wikileaks’ 92,000 Afghan documents to the internal US study of Vietnam leaked in 1971. But the differences are striking.
Read my article in spiked, which is based on a recent blog post, in full ...
This week’s articles of note
“Top secret America,” The Washington Post, by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin
“The Volcker Rule,” The New Yorker, by John Cassidy
“Too many laws, too many prisoners,” The Economist
“The age of rage,” Politico, by John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei
“The $2 camisole: how cheap is ruining ...
Not the Pentagon Papers
The release of classified documents on the Afghanistan war by Wikileaks to three major newspapers has been compared to the Pentagon Papers, the top-secret study of US Vietnam War. But this is an inaccurate comparison: in fact, the differences between the two whistle-blowing incidents highlight how today’s Wikileaks story is ...
The special relationship
Well, an end to my radio silence. I travelled to London last week, and thought I’d have time to post from there, but discovered that I did not. As it happens, the news while I was in London was about America – namely, David Cameron’s trip to America.
The Prime ...
This week’s articles of note
“An economics blind to human ingenuity,” The Guardian, by Daniel Ben-Ami
“Economics behaving badly,” The New York Times, by George Loewenstein and Peter Ubel
“The fatwa: Ayatollah Khomeini and the legacy of the Salman Rushdie affair,” Foreign Policy, by Kenan Malik
“Hayek: the back story,” The New York Times ...
George Steinbrenner
George Steinbrenner will be forever known as the owner of the New York Yankees who restored the baseball team to greatness. After dominating baseball in the first half of the 20th century, the team became mediocre in the 1960s. Following Steinbrenner’s purchase of the team in 1973 for $10 million, the Yankees ...
Thank you for exterminating the Prospect Park geese!
The New York Times reports that wildlife biologists working with the federal Agriculture Department last week gassed to death nearly 400 geese in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.
The reason for the extermination was to cull the large geese population which threaten airplane flights over the city. Prospect Park is near to both ...
The LeBron “Decision”
Back from vacation in the hills of the Wild West, with temperature of 75 degrees and zero humidity (eat your heart out those of you sweltering on the ...
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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