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Is the Pope Catholic enough for conservatives? Bears no longer shitting in the woods.
Last weekend Australian Cardinal George Pell unnecessarily reminded his congregants not only that Pope Francis is the 266th Pope, but also that “history has seen 37 false or antipopes.” Antipopes? Does Cardinal Pell intend to hint that Francis isn’t a true Pope?Nifty .gif
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The Inheritance Economy. More sad in our future.
Even as most younger Americans struggle to obtain decent jobs and secure property, the Welfare Institute concluded, America is moving toward an “inheritance-based economy” where access to the last generation’s wealth could prove a critical determinant of both influence and power.How an eBay founder changed from an average democrat into the leader of an insurgency.
What Shakespeare can teach you about the collapse of feudalism and emergence of capitalism.
If you interrogate Shakespeare through his texts, and ask, what is different between the past and now, the implicit answer is “ideas”. Human beings value each other more; love is more important than family duty; human values like truth, science and justice are worth dying for far more than race or nation...
But we also need Marx. In a materialist view of history, what’s different between feudalism and early merchant capitalism is not just “ideas”. Social relations have changed. The market has begun to dictate how society functions. And at root, the change is driven by new technologies.
Life imitates art, namely Dave Eggers.
Also, Arnold Kling is mostly correct, again. The only area of disagreement I have is his blame on the "affordable housing lobby."
Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, has something in common with Enron.
Alibaba uses what is called a variable interest entity (VIE) structure, which has its roots in the collapse of the energy giant Enron in 2001 and could likewise be the downfall of investors in Alibaba and other Chinese stocks.Teach for America, meanwhile, has something in common with Scientology. They actively suppress criticism of the organization. You know, for the kids.
According to its last three years of available tax filings, Teach For America has spent nearly $3.5 million in advertising and promotion. As the strategy memo indicates, much of this promotion goes toward attacking journalists, including ones previously published in this magazine. The memo details the numerous steps TFA’s communications team took in order to counter Alexandra Hootnick’s recent piece for the The Nation, “Teachers Are Losing Their Jobs, but Teach For America Is Expanding. What’s Wrong With That?”That guy in the elevator with Obama got fired.
ATLANTA — Kenneth Tate toiled for years as a construction worker and corrections officer, and he has no doubt that his last job — working as a $42,000-a-year private security guard at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — was the best he ever had.
The high point was an afternoon seven weeks ago when he was assigned to accompany President Obama, who was visiting the agency’s headquarters here for a briefing on the Ebola epidemic. It was not only that Mr. Tate’s bosses had entrusted him with staying close to such an important dignitary. It was that, as an African-American born in Chicago, he was going to meet the nation’s first black president, a man he deeply admired.
But by the time Mr. Obama’s visit was over, Mr. Tate was on the way to losing his job.More on neo-fascism in Silicon Valley. It's starting to sound a little shrill and conspiratorial but then I remember recent events.
American Machiavelli: A grand unifying theory of post-war conservatism.
These appear to be a variety of different and even paradoxical problems—how can our politics be both too extreme and too consensual? Yet one writer’s work pulls all this into focus. He was one of the key thinkers of the postwar conservative movement, though his thought is badly neglected on the right today. The man whose mind explains our politics today and suggests a diagnosis—if not a cure—for our condition is James Burnham. Once a Marxist, he became the American Machiavelli, master analyst of the oligarchic nature of power in his day and ours.What if people's incomes appeared around them as cash in real time? How much would you need to make to be in real trouble?
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