Technology as Art @ the MoMA
New York, New York big city of dreams Everything in New York ain't always what it seems You might be fooled if you come from out town But I'm down by law, I know my way around Too much, too many people, too much Life in
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Shale, End of a Revolution?
Life in the 21st Century is reader supported, please subscribe to make life sustainable Life in the 21st Century - Joe CostelloHistory, Science, Energy, Technology, Environment, Democracy, CivilizationLife in the 21st Century - Joe CostelloJoe Costello The FT had a piece over the weekend, “Oil chiefs warn of end to
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the CIA, and Me
Life in the 21st Century is reader supported, please subscribe to make life sustainable: SUBSCRIBE A couple months ago, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a name lost for decades, floated briefly to the top of our information sea. Years, decades ago, I read a number of Arthur’s books and articles. In
Waste Not II
Life in the 21st Century is reader supported, please subscribe to make sustainable I received an excellent reply from my brother-in-law on Waste Not piece: “Wanna see waste in America? Attached is a monthly home energy report that Com Ed sends out showing that we are 40% more efficient than
Waste Not
Life in the 21st Century is reader supported, please subscribe to make sustainable: Long ago, I came across an idea attributed to Gandhi that there was no such thing as waste only misplaced matter. Whether it was his or not, it is an excellent view of life. A view completely
Simone Weil & the Poem of Force
Life in the 21st Century is reader supported, help make it sustainable by subscribing: I was never aware of Simone Weil until listening to J. Robert Oppenheimer mention her in a speech from 1955. When I first listened to the speech, I should have paid greater attention to Oppenheimer'
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The Dead Heart
“We may note in passing that one other race (not counting ourselves) has made this sharp distinction between itself and all other foreigners, namely the Hebrews. Here were two races, each very conscious of being different from its neighbors, living not very apart, yet for the most part in complete
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Globalist Goblins in the Democratic Machine w/Joe Costello
Once again, I’m in bed with nefarious Russians. Thanks Yasha and Evgenia Globalist Goblins in the Democratic Machine w/Joe Costello We talk to our friend Joe Costello about Trump’s tariffs, democracy, deindustrialization, the Yeltsinification of America, and the innate human desire for a communal life…NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
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Is Peter Navarro a Moron?
A note: Trump, as is his propensity, already caved on this issue, but here it is anyway. “By what standard then shall we rightly judge these things? By wealth? An evil test to use.” - Euripides, Electra You spend 3 months scrambling across the deserts, mountains, and selvas of Peru,
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A Nice Piece
on the Good Doctor Thompson 20 years on, and his still astute and acute insights on the American political condition 50 years on. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/thompson-on-the-campaign-trail Well worth the read.
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Meanwhile I was still thinking
The last couple days I reread Guglielmo Ferrero’s first volume of The Greatness and Decline of Rome. What a book! What a history! Funny thing, after literally reading for decades about the Roman republic and its fall, I only found Ferrero’s work a couple years ago. A book
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The Ersatz Restoration of Jimmy Carter
So be easy and free when you’re drinking with me I’m a man you don’t meet every day In the middle of the town that had no use for him when he was alive, Jimmy Carter lies in state. As the American political class grasps desperately for