Links: Sociology, Culture, etc.
- The 100 People Who Are Changing America, The RS 100: Agents of Change, Rolling Stone, 18 March 2009.
- Matt Taibbi, Fareed Zakaria's Manifesto: Capitalism Doesn't Rip Off People, People Rip Off People!, The Smirking Chimp, 25 June 2009.
Fareed Zakaria, The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed Is Good (To a point), Newsweek.com, 13 June 2009.
- Juan Cole, Michael Jackson, Islam and the Middle East, Informed Comment, 26 June 2009.
- Kelefa Sanneh, Out of the Office: Fast bikes, slow food, and the workplace wars, The New Yorker, 22 June 2009.
- Jeffrey Brown, Media Take Second Look at Coverage of Jackson's Death, PBS Newshour, 10 July 2009.
Commentary on how news of Michael Jackson recently crowded out other news in the major media.
But this sort of thing has been going on for (a long time / forever); for example, see Project Censored, which documents the kind of stories routinely crowded out of or omitted from news coverage, and thus ignored, generally for political/economic reasons. Some contend that it is actually the very nature and purpose of the U.S. major media to keep public scrutiny away from subjects and interpretations that threaten the powerful and their financial interests.
Shannon Rupp, Science Discovers Celebrities Are Useful for Something, The Tyee, TheTyee.ca, 03 July 2009.
James Howard Kunstler, The Man in the Mirror, Clusterfuck Nation, Kunstler.com, 29 June 2009.
David Yearsley, Tara, America's Dream House, CounterPunch.org, 10 July 2009.
Chris Hedges, The Man in the Mirror, Truthdig , 13 July 2009.
- Tamar Lewin, University of California Makes Cuts After Reduction in State Financing, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 10 July 2009.
A society that regards Education as a business has a serious problem.
Before the fall: California's universities in trouble, The Economist, 06 August 2009.
"California’s financial crisis jeopardises one of the world’s finest universities."
- Frank Rich, She Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 12 July 2009.
- John Kay, Managers doomed to repeat the mistakes of history, The Financial Times, FT.com, 14 July 2009.
- The Invisible Library.
- * Chris Hedges, Resist or Become Serfs, TruthDig.com, 06 April 2009.
- T. A. Frank, Golden Erring, Washington Monthly, July/August 2009.
"Once the embodiment of America’s possibilities, California has become the embodiment of the country’s delusions."
review of the book:
Kevin Star. Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963. Oxford University Press, 2009.
(publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.)
Note that this is just one volume in Starr's series: Americans and the California Dream.
- * David Seaton, Today's America is a class act, David Seaton's Blog, 22 July 2009.
- Nikolas Kozloff, The Coup and the U.S. Airbase in Honduras, CounterPunch.org, 22 July 2009.
- Jack Hitt, Radovan Karadzic’s New-Age Adventure, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 22 July 2009.
- Helene Cooper, Meet the New Elite, Not Like the Old - Affirmative Action and America’s Leaders, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 25 July 2009.
- Greg Palast, The Day the President Turned Black (But has he turned back?), GregPalast.com, 29 July 2009 [also published at The Huffington Post].
- Barbara Ehrenreich and Dedrick Muhammed, The Destruction of the Black Middle Class, The Huffington Post, 04 August 2009.
- Michael Pollan, Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 02 August 2009.
- * Daniel Ellsberg, Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years, Truthdig, 05 August 2009.
- Chris Hedges, So Much for the Promised Land, Truthdig, 03 August 2009.
- Mark Ames, Revenge Of The Nerd: What The Media Won’t Tell You About The Rampage Killer Who Attacked A Pittsburgh Aerobics Class, The eXiled, 05 August 2009.
- Michael Massing, The News About the Internet, The New York Review of Books, Volume 56, Number 13, 13 August 2009.
- Barbara Ehrenreich, Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor?, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 08 August 2009.