Over at Crooked Timber, Henry has a really interesting commentary to this Doug Henwood piece attacking the neoliberal left. Henry: Neo-liberals tend to favor a combination of market mechanisms and technocratic solutions to solve social problems. But these kinds of solutions tend to discount politics...
Author: Erik Loomis
I have an article at Global Comment on fracking, expanding on some of the themes I've discussed here over the past few weeks. Regarding Andrew Cuomo's appointment of leading environmentalists.
Interesting piece on food trucks in the Times. A couple of thoughts. 1. The complaint from restauranteurs about a loss of business when food trucks pull up is mostly absurd..
Yes, clearly the Blue Jays must have been stealing signs for Bartolo Colon to implode...... I haven't felt this bad for the Yankees since Brian Cashman cried that the Mariners used him to get Texas to up the ante for Cliff Lee.
This was a really hard list to put together. The bench in New York is probably deeper than any other state in the nation. 1. Franklin Roosevelt--our second greatest president..
Some labor notes for your Friday: 1. Verizon is attacking its own workers, attempting to force 45,000 workers to tie pay to performance and pay into their own health care.
I highly recommend Meghan O'Gieblyn's piece in Guernica about growing up in a home-schooled evangelical household listening to Christian rock and then discovering actual rock and roll. It's an interesting meditation on 90s rock music, spirituality, and changes in fundamentalism.
Given the massive attack by conservatives on teaching U.S. history (particularly with the Texas textbooks), I am very pleased to hear of Jerry Brown signing a bill ordering the teaching.
On July 14, 1877, the Great Railroad Strike began in Martinsburg, West Virginia. After the Civil War, industrialists engaged in an enormous rail building program. Much of this was funded.
Historiann links to a good piece by Lynn Lubamersky at Inside Higher Ed, arguing for using Skype for first-round academic interviews rather than forcing everyone to fly to a cold distant city in order to suffer through horrendous in-person interviews. I wholeheartedly agree with this....
Again, I just have a really hard time understanding why we don't trust the energy industry to look out for our best interests? In 2007, Berry Energy Inc. of Clarksburg.
Great WSJ story on how the Cincinnati Bengals completely fleeced Hamilton County taxpayers for their stadium, creating a long-term county budget crisis that is crippling the region. My favorite part:.