It is a sign of their wrong path that party strategists are holding onto the same identity politics they have used since the 1960s to divide Americans into hyphenated special-interest groups.
Our language, much like everything these days, has been hacked. Fuzzy, contentious, and complex ideas have been stripped of their subversive connotations and replaced by cleaner, shinier, and emptier alternatives; long-running debates about politics, rights, and freedoms have been recast in the seemingly natural language of economics, innovation, and efficiency.
Following is the unofficial transcript of a FIRST ON CNBC interview with George Soros, Chairman of Soros Fund Management, from the World Economic Forum in Davos. All references must be sourced to CNBC.
Der 44. US-Präsident ist gewählt. Was kann die Welt erwarten? Der Schlüssel zum Verständnis liegt in seinem Wesen. (Kommentar von Christoph von Marschall)
I wasn’t going to do this, but then someone ask me to do it, and someone else told me (to my horror – not that it would be insane for anyone, but insane for her) that she was for Clinton. So consider this my precinct captain duty for the lessig blog.
A look at the policies of Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama reveals that the candidates have actually laid out two competing economic philosophies. The fight over health insurance is just one part of their disagreement.
La rivista di filosofia e politica, diretta da Paolo Flores d'Arcais, al servizio delle grandi battaglie civili, della coscienza democratica e della riflessione sulla politica in Italia. Contro il pensiero unico dominante.