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Subscribe now It has been our misfortune the information technology revolution, it is nothing short of a revolution, has to this point been overwhelmingly measured by the values of industrialism. For example, it is no coincidence the major revenue source for Google, Facebook, and Twitter is advertising. The value of
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Subscribe now The politics of debt have changed extraordinarily over the last century. In the 1930s, when the new national industrial economies collapsed in unison, the unorthodox idea of deficit spending to counter the collapse emerged. In the US, the New Deal Coalition adopted the practice to counter the Depression’
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Subscribe now I recently had a brief, always, always as short as possible these days, discussion about America’s reality TV politics. I concluded if someone gave me good enough odds, I might bet pretty heavily Joe Biden will not be reelected. Since in two and half centuries, only 11
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Subscribe now Ruth Gordon's excellent, The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything is a wonderful account of the history and politics of technology. Gordon documents the adoption of burning coal in English homes and its eventual impact on the houses, diet, culture,
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Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. "Accelerated change invokes the gyroscopic or principles of rigidity. Also, to high-speed change no adjustment is possible. We become spectators only, and must escape into understanding. This may be why the conservative has an
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Subscribe now Continued from (I) In answering this question it's helpful to begin with historian Fernand Braudel's understanding of geography's essential role in shaping the history of Homo sapiens — “humanity's relation with the inanimate.” Additionally, this can be understood as the relationship
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Subscribe now Modern republicanism is failing. Initiated two centuries ago with the founding of the United States, modern republicanism resurfaced ancient ideas and institutions of democratic self-government. In word, if not always in deed, republicanism swept the globe. At the end of the 18th century, monarchies were in place across
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Subscribe now With your feet on the air and head on the ground Try this trick and spin it Your head will collapse when there's nothing in it And you'll ask yourself, where is my mind? (Pixies via M.I.A.) A dozen years ago, a
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Subscribe now This old airport’s got me down It’s no earthly good to me I’m stuck here on the ground As cold and drunk as I can be You can’t jump a jet plane Like you can a freight train So I best be on my
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Subscribe now Science is inherently political. This is not meant in anyway to degrade science, but reveals a most desperate need to reform politics by incorporating science into politics, while simultaneously developing an understanding of the politics of science. The other day some of our Tech Priests were evangelizing a
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MO’ MONEY — MO’ MONEY — MO’ MONEY A lovely Sunday Spring Morning Sisters and Brothers, I can report the last Board Meeting of Life in the 21st Century was a rollicking and not very pleasant affair. The Board cast more than few disparaging comments and I can relay they wanted to
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Subscribe now History is the medium of politics. Without knowledge of history, politics becomes untethered, suspect, of little worth. History will never be a science as it cannot be reset and repeated to prove any given theory. It's impenetrable to the scientific method, the very process that created