Links: Sociology, Culture, etc.

• The Four Horsemen - Hour 1 [Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens, Harris], Google Video, 30 September 2007.
  
  The Four Horsemen - Hour 2 [Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens, Harris], Google Video, 30 September 2007.
  
  DVD available at RichardDawkins.net; Amazon.com; Netflix.
  
  Video of a conversation among them.


• Chris Floyd, Bait and Switch: Using Diversity to Disguise Inequality, Empire Burlesque, 27 August 2009.
  
  Mr. Floyd refers to the essay:
  Walter Benn Michaels, What Matters, London Review of Books, vol. 31, no. 16, 27 August 2009.
  
  Mr. Michaels' essay is a review of:
  Kjartan Páll Sveinsson, editor. Who Cares about the White Working Class?. London: The Runnymede Trust, 2009.
  
  A similar publication exists, refering to the USA:
  Ruy Teixeira & Joel Rogers. America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
  (Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.)


• Helaine Olen, Corporate Dominance of Every Aspects of Our Lives Is Suffocating Us, AlterNet, alternet.org, 07 August 2009.
  
  review of:
  Doug Rushkoff. Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back. New York: Random House, 2009.
  (Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.)


• Patrica Leigh Brown, Invisible Immigrants, Old and Left With ‘Nobody to Talk To’, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 30 August 2009.


• Greg Laden, The Falsehoods: The poor and the dark skinned have more babies than the rich and the light skinned, Greg Laden's Blog, 31 August 2009.


• * Henry A. Giroux, Living in a Culture of Cruelty: Democracy as Spectacle, truthout, 02 September 2009.


• Alice Waters, Want to Teach Democracy? Improve School Lunches, The Huffington Post, 03 September 2009.


• Ed Vulliamy, Is America ready to admit defeat in its 40-year war on drugs?: A wave of decriminalisation is sweeping through Latin America, The Observer, guardian.co.uk, 06 September 2009.


• Juan Cole, Where Have All the Broad Shoulders Gone? Or, Labor Day in a Kleptocracy, Informed Comment, 07 September 2009.


• Historicism, Wikipedia.
  
  Which frame of Historicism are you, a politician, or whomever, using to interpret human events? Is that variant of Historicism valid in that or any context? Perhaps Historicism is a figment of the human imagination (similar to the way the human brain is hard-wired to recognize human faces, and does so even in contexts that are meaningless, such as in a photo of Mars or in a tree stump; this is know as pareidolia).


• Clive Thompson, Is Happiness Catching?, The New York Times Magazine, NYTimes.com, 10 September 2009.


• * Henry A. Giroux, The Spectacle of Illiteracy and the Crisis of Democracy, truthout.org, 15 September 2009.


• Terence Tao, A speech for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [on the future impact of internet-based technologies on academia], What’s new blog, 17 September 2009.


• Frank Schaeffer, Right-Wing Hatemongering Fueled by Christianity?, AlterNet, AlterNet.org, 21 September 2009.


• ‘Rural Brain Drain’ Turns Small Towns Into Ghost Towns, Truthdig, truthdig.com, 21 September 2009.