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Some people have asked me for reactions to this piece by Alan Greenspan (pdf) on how Obama’s activism is preventing economic recovery. I could go through the weak reasoning, the shoddy econometrics that ignores a large literature on business investment … Continue reading →

The notion of the 'Citizen Journalist' was given plangency by Arianna Huffington, before the sale of the Huffington Post to AOL: in order to fill her web site with content, that was and is, written by some very talented, impressive … Continue reading →

The Newspaper Guild is joining with the unpaid bloggers at the Huffington Post, calling on them to withhold content. In a letter that calls the Post’s practice of publishing the work of unpaid writers “unprofessional and unethical,” the newspaper union … Continue reading →

About This Book About the Authors Reviews Franz Göll was a thoroughly typical Berliner. He worked as a clerk, sometimes as a postal employee, night watchman, or publisher’s assistant. He enjoyed the movies, ate spice cake, wore a fedora, tamed … Continue reading →

Description The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity … Continue reading →

Description Jackson Pollock, the towering American artist who was to revolutionize twentieth-century art with his “dripping” painting technique, grew up between the late 1920s and the late 1940s, the youngest of five boys born in the American West. Though often … Continue reading →

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