Boston today was relatively still despite a normal work day and despite the sirens that would ring through downtown seemingly every fifteen minutes. And even the cool, overcast summer weather reminded me of times I visited Britain. Empathy is not the same thing as the experience of seeing your city attacked, but like so many […]
Someone desperately needs a better publicist.
Payton at Chicago-based Breaking the Gridlock takes on the notion that New Urbanism is somehow responsible for gentrification. “New Urbanism is ‘a forum, not a formula,’” he writes. “The ranks of New Urbanists include many voices, who (in my experience) collectively have done tremendously thoughtful (and often effective) work on understanding the root causes and […]
Tyler Green reports speculation that Harvard’s Fogg museum is contemplating a move to the South Boston Seaport district.
The Carpetbagger Report weighs the P.R. blunder that Senator Bill Frist’s appearance at this weekend’s Family Research Council conference and concludes that the senator has gone out on a political limb.
I’ve not read Jay Epstein’s book yet, but […]
It makes sense that Slate - straddling internet culture and professional journalism - would be better situated to understand the phenomenon of blogging, but it’s still surprising that it’s taken so long for someone to say the obvious in the way Jack Shafer has. Best line: "Blogs are parasites, they say. Oddly, when the mainstreamers […]
Here’s some reading I found particularly worthwhile this week.
Via Laura Rozen I’ve just discovered the Democracy Arsenal, excellent group blog devoted to center-left foreign policy. The posts are all great, from the 10 Step program for Democrats to a post on TV representations of Africa.
Mark Schmitt reprises his “Death of Environmentalism” post in a […]
Quiet snowy morning here. What better time to serve up some links to material you may or may not have seen this week?
Mark Schmitt takes on “Miss America Conservatism,” the tendency to slice out narrow pet causes of personal interest to the detriment of a larger concern for health care or poverty-reduction. “Having a child […]
It’s hard to grasp the numbers we’re hearing from the tsunami disaster, numbers that seem to be mounting each time my web browser refreshes the front page of whatever newspaper site I have up. So Lis Riba compares American cities with census populations under the current death toll: Berkeley, CA, Athens, GA, Charleston, SC, Cambridge, […]
The earthquake and tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia is unimaginable in its horror. Partly it’s the sheer scale of destruction. Partly it’s the tragedy of a lack of warning that could have saved thousands.
Like Matt Yglesias, I wondered about the slowness of American TV news to give the story much play. Even now, it’s […]