1. Al Wood, proprietor of the magnificent Ukulele Hunt, disclaims any interest in politics, but he has a post up about copyright law that everyone should read. He calls for a scrapping of the 95-year term of protection that is now standard in the developed world, and a return to the once-standard renewable 14 year [...]
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Some interesting things from the web
Posted by acilius on November 4, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/11/04/some-interesting-things-from-the-web/
The American Conservative, May 2010
Can left-wing opponents of the American Empire join with right-wing defenders of the Old Republic to build an effective antiwar movement in the USA? Fourteen authors, including leftists like Paul Buhle and Matthew Yglesias and rightists like Paul Gottfried and John Lukacs, consider the question. The cover image, representing a face-off between Barack Obama and [...]
Posted by acilius on April 12, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/04/12/the-american-conservative-may-2010/
Four bureaucracies
I’ve always been interested in the power of bureaucracy. The word “bureaucracy” is often used to mean an inefficient organization, but if that’s all bureaucracy really was it would never have become the most pervasive form of social organization in the modern world. In fact, bureaucracies are the most efficient of organizations. We become frustrated [...]
Posted by acilius on April 7, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/04/07/four-bureaucracies/
The Nation magazine’s first issues of 2010
1 February: The first issue to go to press after the earthquake in Haiti includes some recommendations for those who would like to find a good relief organization to give money. The first organization I looked up when I heard about the quake was one I’d first read of in the pages of The Nation, MADRE. [...]
Posted by acilius on January 14, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/01/14/the-nation-magazines-first-issues-of-2010/
The American Conservative, December 2009
Fifteen writers list “The Best Books You Haven’t Read“; I don’t know about you, but the only one on any of the lists that I had read was Sam Tanenhaus’ pick, The Managerial Revolution by James Burnham. And that one did not make a very good impression; it struck me as one part dumbed-down Max [...]
Posted by acilius on November 3, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/11/03/the-american-conservative-december-2009/
The Atlantic Monthly, May 2009
Recently attempts have been made to launch spacecraft that would sail on the force of photons emanating from the sun. “Solar sailing” may be a technology that will make it possible to achieve very high speeds, perhaps more than half the speed of light. An article describes these efforts and the history behind them. The first place I [...]
Posted by acilius on April 22, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/04/22/the-atlantic-monthly-may-2009/
The Nation, 13 April 2009
Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon review Caryl Churchill‘s new play, Tell Her the Truth, which tells the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict in ten minutes. ”Why is the play so short? Probably because Churchill means to slap us out of our rehearsed arguments to look at the immediate human crisis.” Churchill cares about what human beings are [...]
Posted by acilius on March 27, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/03/27/the-nation-13-april-2009/
The American Conservative, 9 March 2009
Benjamin Disraeli as a Young Man A review of Adam Kirsch’s biography of Benjamin Disraeli focuses on Kirsch’s idea that because Disraeli realized he could not stop his fellow nineteenth-century Englishmen from thinking of him primarily in terms of his Jewish ancestry, he “did not attempt to disguise his Jewish background. He embellished it.” Disraeli purported to be far more [...]
Posted by acilius on March 4, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/03/04/the-american-conservative-9-march-2009/
The Nation, July 2008
7 July- Alexander Cockburn points out the shortcomings of the late Tim Russert; Jon Wiener derides efforts to depict the University of California at Irvine as a hotbed of anti-semitism. 14 July- In “The Subprime Swindle” Kai Wright shows that many of those now facing foreclosure because of exotic mortgages are African-American, and argues that [...]
Posted by acilius on September 25, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/25/the-nation-july-2008/
The Nation, 15 October 2007
Two pieces deal with the likelihood that rightists will spend the next few decades trying to convince themselves and the voting public that the reason the war in Iraq was such a disaster was that the left stabbed America in the back. A column by Eric Alterman compares the rumblings to this effect that we [...]
Posted by acilius on October 2, 2007
http://losthunderlads.com/2007/10/02/the-nation-15-october-2007/
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