David Gergen is the director of the Center for Public Leadership in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has served in the White House as an adviser to presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton. The following is taken from an interview he did with Rolling Stone, along with Ruy Teixeira and Peter [...]
I’m tired of listservs, but I am unfortunately unable to subscribe from many of the ones I belong to. I much prefer blogs, fourms, and wikis, each of which is well suited for different purposes. I’ve been thinking of setting up a Gmail account for all the lists I subscribe to and then dumping all [...]
Reporting on the holiday season on NPR, Howard Davidowitz says that luxury items are “flying off the shelves” and upscale retailers Bergdorf Goodman can expect to do amazingly well, while discount retailers like Wal-Mart will only see modest sales, and are likely to be in “big trouble” next year. Not that “class” issues exist in [...]
Nathan Newman has an important post about attacks on Columbia University professors who express anti-Israeli views. Professors who have voiced anti-Israel views are being targetted by rightwing forces in order to silence unpopular views. This isn’t the first time that this has happened. A few years ago the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages [...]
One of the annoying things about managing a blog – the only one actually – is SPAM. For a long time I was able to block spam with a program which would filter out certain phrases and URLs, but the spammers finally got too smart for that. The same thing has happened to my e-mail [...]
Like Red vs. Blue in the US, but Ukrainian style. And here his Blue vs. Orange in pictures. Looks like there is some kind of a settlement. (via Fistful of Euros, as usual.) UPDATE: A good post about the linguistic map of the Ukraine over at LanguageLog.
The sign language presenter on the Ukrainian state-run television station “rejected the pro-government script and informed her viewers instead of the allegations of vote-rigging.” (Thanks to reader, TF for the tip.)
Is the government burning documents, just like happened in Georgia before the government fell? Will the Ukraine split in two? Have the military unions sided with the opposition? Who knows, but the internet sure makes reading the news fun. Get your full dose of Ukranian blogging here, in a Ukraine blog digest set up by [...]
Drew Beck brings my attention to this Žižek essay (also here) on the book everyone has been talking about since even before election day: Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter with Kansas?. What I like about Žižek’s essay is that, perhaps because he is an outsider, he is able to express the contradictions inherent in red-state [...]
Looking around Flickr.com for the tag “Ukraine” I thought I would find pictures of protesters in Kiev, but instead I found this picture of protestors in Kharkov, in the East, which, as the photographer notes, should be “Yanukovych heartland”!