Jim Kunstler in Business Week:
The suburbs were largely products of industrialism. We had a huge supply of oil and cheap undeveloped land, and we decided to become a happy, motoring utopia. It had many practical benefits. The trouble is after a while it became a cartoon of country living …
Cheap oil is what made suburbia [...]
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Recent Kunstler on Suburan Demise and Decentralized Rise 05.05.08
Canadian Nation Building 05.03.08
Andrew Potter of the Ottawa Citizen interviews Nicolas Papadopoulos of Carleton’s Sprott School of Business about nation building and Canada.
Papadopoulos argues that branding is increasingly important as nations, cities and regions compete for talent, investment, students, tradespeople, and the like. There are shortages abound in all of these, sometimes because of misallocations and sometimes because [...]
Long-Tail Politics 12.31.07
2008’s first Newsweek offers:
[The Long Tail] is now playing a part in our politics, where Paul’s recent rise reflects the same dynamics. In 1988 his libertarian message—reduce government at home, resist military meddling abroad, restore the gold standard—went unheard. Today, it’s spreading quickly online and connecting activists across the country, a few people at [...]
Disaster Capitalism: Whose How-To Guide? 11.12.07
Naomi Klein, author of the now-bestselling “Shock Doctrine” wrote in the Guardian:
On a recent visit to Calgary, Alberta, I was taken aback to see my book on disaster capitalism selling briskly at the airport. Calgary is ground zero of North America’s oil and gas boom, where business suits and cowboy hats are the de facto [...]
Giuliani on Torture 10.27.07
They talk about sleep deprivation. I mean, on that theory, I’m getting tortured running for president of the United States. That’s plain silly. That’s silly.
Rudy Giuliani on Torture [From NYT]
Ludwig von Mises Quote 08.19.07
“An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.” — Ludwig von Mises
Ron Paul is Correct 08.12.07
The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland. From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Chechnya to Kashmir to the West Bank, every [...]
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