Someone beat me to my next article. That’s what happens when you take time out to watch some football. Changes in the basic shape of a successful career may have a lot to do with both youth unemployment rates, and…
Yearly Archives: 2013
Will Quantum Computing Actually Work?
The story of the quantum computer is fascinating not just because of the technology involved, but because of its ties into politics, economic theory, corporate/government partnership, the government shutdown, the role of the religious right in undermining science education in…
Posted in Economics
The Fate of a Hip Hop Republican
Some of you know that my posts often appear on another blog, hiphoprepublican.com, along with a lot of very promising black Republicans. Congressman Trey Radel, who was just arrested for cocaine possession, posted a piece there a few weeks ago.…
Artur Davis: How the Right Turned Radical
Former Democratic Congressman Artur Davis is a guy Republicans should be paying a lot more attention to. What if we had someone in the party who had: 1) Defeated an African American liberal in a Congressional race 2) Won said…
What Comes After Obamacare
The GOP has embarked yet another desperate push to persuade the public that the Affordable Care Act is too flawed to tolerate. The far right wins this ill-conceived campaign they may be very, very disappointed when they see their prize.…
Tagged with: affordable care act, death panel, healthcare.gov, keep your insurance, medicaid, obamacare, single payer
Posted in Health Care, Tea Party
Posted in Health Care, Tea Party
Frontline on Lee Harvey Oswald
Frontline does it again. Maybe the best documentary ever on the Kennedy Assassination. Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald
Posted in Uncategorized
We Keep Outrunning “The Future”
Walter Kronkite recorded this vision of a fantastic, sci-fi future back in 1969. This “computerized communications console” is what a man might use to do work in the 21st Century, because in the future men do the work. He can…
Preparing for a Post-Jobs Economy
The software company VMware has roughly the same market value as General Motors. VMware has 13,000 employees. GM employs almost a quarter of a million people. In addition to the current workforce, GM supports roughly half a million retired workers…
Tagged with: basic income, ownership society, unemployment
Posted in Economics, Ownership Society, Republican Party
Posted in Economics, Ownership Society, Republican Party
My Favorite Republican
The lost hero of modern conservatism was a charismatic maverick who represented the best hope for the post-Cold War Republican Party. He gave us an opportunity to build the Party’s center-right posture into a post-racial juggernaut that could have dominated…
Where the Crazy May Be Coming From
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke Our politics is getting weird. We’ve always struggled against opportunism and corruption and lying. But the fresh rise of what can only fairly be described as “crazy” is…
Tagged with: alvin toeffler, birthers, donald trump, future shock, tea party
Posted in Political Theory, Tea Party
Posted in Political Theory, Tea Party
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