MG Siegler’s snarky title frames an ongoing drama in which we are all actors, willing or otherwise; day by day we redefine our relationships and our lives with new technologies. Siegler is a San Francisco-based journalist whose work appears frequently on TechCrunch, an online technology-oriented news source, blog, and information hub. He is a frequent …
Rising up by Degrees: “Educated, Unemployed, and Frustrated” in the New York Times
You’re a college student; this one will likely hit close to home. How do you feel about your future on the other side of graduation? Matthew C. Klein, a research associate with the Council on Foreign Relations, describes the harsh realities facing some recent graduates and makes possibly unsettling comparisons with similar populations in other …
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Mother Jones Takes a Peek at the Economy: “It’s the Inequality, Stupid”
We all know that the U.S. economy is hobbling along, and it’s also no surprise that some segments of the population are better off than others. Yet the tables and charts compiled by political journalists Dave Gilson and Carolyn Perot for Mother Jones demonstrate with painful clarity the disparities between the rich and the un-rich …
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Your Brain on Media: Steven Pinker’s “Mind Over Mass Media”
Steven Pinker, distinguished Harvard University professor, is one of very few linguists known outside of the discipline, and his five books written for a general audience have all been big hits. How the mind works was a New York Times bestseller in 1998 and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, as was his 2003 book, …
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David Nasaw – “Giving Season”
David Nasaw, professor of history at the City University of New York, specializes in the cultural history of wealth (among other themes). While our current U.S. body politic wrestles with tax cuts and public spending, Nasaw’s article is particularly relevant, since he asks some questions that we are not accustomed to hearing (and provokes us …
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