Category: America
James Corden Learns about White Privilege
James Corden has a new segment on the Late Late Show, and one night this week, this was the third thing. Share This:
Poverty – An American Shame
As AI and other developments lead us to talk about what happens when work disappears, another debate that predates this one, is the continuing high…
The Hacking of America – Jill Lepore –
Given all the empty positive talk that we are fed on a daily basis, and given all the lies and generalizations, it seems like the…
Scott Adams – Predicting Trump
Alex Beam in the Boston Globe today, highlighted Scott Adams’ (the creator of Dilbert) prediction in in his blog August 2015 that the “Clown Genius,”…
Steve Almond: We Need to Make the Media We Need
We are swimming in a world of lies and hype. Politics and the consumer society are mostly based on telling us what we want to…
The Age of Anger byPankaj Mishra
It is more than time for all of us to think about the flaws in the worlds we believe in, the worlds we are trying to…
683,473 Brits living in the States today
This is from an article in TransferWise: We’ve already done some research to know the things Brits have to adjust to in the U.S., so…
Some Numbers from NH 2016 Primary
My impression has always been that New Hampshire is a heavily Republican state, “live free or die” etc., but in terms of numbers of voter…
Kirsten Gillibrand: We Need to Change the Conversation About ‘Having it All’
The worn-out debate about whether women can “have it all” is misleading at best and fails to address the real issues facing American women because…
Sympathy for Republicans
Let us finally find a space in our hearts for these men, and one woman, who say they want to lead the United States for…
