Politics & Current Affairs

What it is that is not making our world better?

People these days are staying in and watching movies instead of going out and spending money. Does that mean no more football games? Ben Casselman in the Wall Street Journal […]

In a radical and risky move, the Bank of England today decided to start printing money to combat the economic crisis, according to the London Times. While this might be […]

Permission marketing expert Seth Godin has written a new book called Tribes about leadership in a post-geography world. Is Nuveau Tribalism the path to leadership in the twenty-first century? Godin’s […]

The cross-cutting matrix of interests that defines our new global landscape is nicely represented in this commercial for the non-profit Citizens Energy featuring founder, and Kennedy family scion, Joe Kennedy […]

This is an interpretation of Niccolo Machivelli’s 1517 imcomplete poem L’Asino. The so-called cynic cold-blooded advisor of evil shows a ‘parenthetical’ aestheticism in his perception of friendship. Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the great prospects of aesthetic politics comes to be a useful tool for the interpretation of Machiavelli’s ‘poetic therapy’.

David Brooks, in his column, “Money for Idiots,” writes today in the New York Times that although our economic system—and life in general?—is supposed to be based on the idea […]

Pepsi has a new logo, but rather than symbolize the brand’s legacy of youth, the redesign represents the absurdities of the advertising industry. Pepsi reportedly paid New York City ad […]

A sophomore at the University of Virginia who has fought in Iraq, as well as a few of his classmates, have designed a stronger, more comfortable body armor that they […]

Libertarian music critic Nat Hentoff, one of the foremost authorities on the First Amendment, has joined the Cato Institute as a senior fellow. In a press release issued by the […]

I’ve more or less stopped paying attention to political news from Zimbabwe. As an increasing number of “talks” seem to end in reaffirmation of still President Mugabe’s Reign of Terror, […]

In these economic times, it’s hard to imagine anyone who doesn’t long for a dry martini. But Jason Wilson in the Washington Post today asserts that the “post-war era dry […]

Although skeptics say the signs of optimism in the commodities markets could evaporate just a quickly as they appear, gold, tin, and corn are one of the few market sectors […]

Do Not Wake up The Red Dragon, communist CHINA.

Obama has made a decidedly lefty imprint on the first week of his presidency. The shuttering of Guantanamo is set in stone, albeit with an uncertain closing date; a New […]

While the “Baghdad clogger,” Muntazer al-Zaidi, awaits his final verdict for throwing two size 10 loafers at President Bush last month, a monument in his honor has been erected in […]

Michael Bloomberg is the founder of the financial media company Bloomberg LLC and was elected the mayor of New York City in 2001. In his plan of action for the next president’s first 100 days, Bloomberg advises against a “legislative run,” and encourages action on all fronts—from immigration to education to energy. The economy, and renewed confidence in it, must be at the top of the agenda. In the long term, Bloomberg wants to see a system that takes advantage of bipartisan relationships and respects the intelligence of the American people.

The bandwidth providers (Cable, DSL) have made billions providing easy access to pirated intellectual property. They haven’t paid one cent back to the owners. Granted, many of them tried to […]

The Solar Space Port Inititative The strategy can be seen as the equivalent to an “Apollo” project for renewable energy much like Al Gore has talked about recently. It could […]