What Friedrich Nietzsche Did to America
In 1889, when Friedrich Nietzsche suffered the mental collapse that ended his career, he was virtually unknown. Yet by the time of his death in 1900 at the age of 55, he had become the philosophical...
View ArticleAmerica’s Got No Talent
“America’s Got No Talent” is a web-based software project by Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki that synthesizes and processes the steady stream of Twitter feeds for several American reality...
View ArticleAmerica the Possible: A Manifesto, Part I
The following transformations hold the key to moving to a new political economy. Consider each as a transition from today to tomorrow. • Economic growth: from growth fetish to post-growth society,...
View ArticleThe Rich And The Rest Of Us: A Poverty Manifesto
Award-winning broadcaster Tavis Smiley and one of the nation’s leading democratic intellectuals, Cornel West, challenge us to examine our assumptions about poverty in America. The Rich and the Rest of...
View ArticleFear of a Black President
As a candidate, Barack Obama said we needed to reckon with race and with America’s original sin, slavery. But as our first black president, he has avoided mention of race almost entirely. In having to...
View ArticleThe Drone Philosopher
From the thumbnail headshot accompanying his essay in the Times, “the drone philosopher,” as I’ve begun to think of him, appears to be in his late twenties, or a boyish 30. In an oddly...
View ArticleClass in America: The Fault Lines
From “trailer trash” to “the one percent,” the language of class tends to evoke divisions both stark and simplistic. It’s easy to discern the outward differences between a single mother living in...
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