Barbara Bergmann makes a good case for the priority of certain “merit goods” over cash grants—a position I think most basic income supporters would agree with—but her argument breaks down when she attempts to prove, through the example of Sweden, …
Over the past five years, four successful revolutions have occurred in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, overthrowing pseudodemocratic regimes and bringing to power new coalitions expressing commitment to democratic reform. There is now enormous interest in revolution among democratic activists …
T. R. Reid’s The United States of Europe, Jeremy Rifkin’s The European Dream, and Mark Leonard’s Why Europe will Run the 21st Century
The incompetence and cruelty of the Bush administration, currently on view in Iraq and New Orleans, may suffice to get the electorate to reduce Republican ascendancy in the Congress in 2006 and put a Democrat in the White House in …
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson’s Off Center
On a trip to Portland, Oregon, in 2004, I wandered into the Whole Foods Market, where shoppers are greeted with soft-hued lighting, high ceilings, and carefully groomed displays of choice desserts and organic foods. The overall effect is more like …
John Hoerr’s Harry, Tom, and Father Rice
Yoram Peri looks at the Israeli army and state after disengagement
More than a decade ago, John Sweeney ousted Lane Kirkland and promised to revitalize the labor movement. He put a greater emphasis on organizing and more militant action on behalf of America’s working families. Sweeney and his team brought many …
Recalling another Republican who ignored flood victims
Lessons for community organizing in the life of Rosa Parks
George Lakoff’s Don’t Think of an Elephant!
Notes from Down Under, after a month in Melbourne: The kangaroo isn’t as peculiar as the platypus or as funny-looking as the emu, but it is still a powerful argument against intelligent design. Of course, there is a counter-argument, according …
What happens after the union splits
Ian McEwan’s Saturday
