A Brave New World?
“Ford, we are twelve; oh make us one, Like drops within the Social River; Oh, make us now together run As swiftly as thy shining Flivver. Come, Greater Being, Social Friend, Annihilating...
political analysis
Latest NYPD Outrage – Forced Iris Scans
The latest scandal involving the NYPD, which seems to have an unlimited ability to do whatever they want with no accountability and total immunity, was reported over the weekend by the Village...
The Dangerous Business of Facebook Access
[3/24 Update] *After having written about this earlier this week, the story seems to have exploded. Facebook even came out with a statement which effectively said to employers–ask for employee–or potential employee...
Homo economicus or Homo abyssimus
“…not only have economists, as a profession, failed to guide the world out of the crisis, they were also primarily responsible for leading us into it…The scandal of modern economics is that these...
Feminist Art Criticism and Gender Politics
In The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir writes: “If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through “the eternal feminine,” and...
BP tries to shirk responsibility in Gulf oil spill case
I’d have to agree with a recent headline at MarketWatch: Sweet Deal for BP. Too sweet in fact. That BP is getting off the hook with only about $8 billion in fines...
