ARE WE INSANE? Is anxiety, and even depression, a rational response to what passes for reality these days? Chris Hedges seems to think so. Here’s how he frames the issue: Welcome to the Asylum When civilizations start to die, they go insane. . . Let the masses be thrust into extreme poverty and left without jobs while the elites, drunk …
Whenever I find myself holding hands with political Pollyannas, and someone foolishly yells “Red Rover Red Rover, send Chris Hedges right over,” I cringe, close my eyes, and wait for the impact of the Tasmanian Devil himself. Seriously, this guy’s columns should come with a warning label: “Not to be read by anyone displaying signs of clinical depression or …
The simple, snark-free truth is this. There is so much wrong with the way life and culture are currently valued, lived, and experienced in America today by a huge, backward looking minority, that irony and snark must per force ooze from every pore of our collective bag of national skin until we free ourselves from its grasping claws.
Geithner & Summers manning the oars after Bush decided to empty the boat’s bilges by drilling a hole in its bottom Bush sinks the economic ship of state. Obama launches the life rafts, piloted by Wall Street insiders Timmeh Geithner and Larry Summers. But the sharks (hedge funds, private equity firms) are circling and there’s lots of stormy weather ahead. …
Shai Sachs: Dispatches from the Religious Left will be released in about a week, on Oct. 1, 2008. The book, edited by Frederick Clarkson, contains a wide variety of thoughtful essays on what the Religious Left is and how it should move forward, including a brief chapter on new media that my wife and I co-write. If you happen to …
