Liberalism 5.0
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Bratton’s Anti-TED TED Talk
His point is that TED is to cosmopoliticans what FOX is to conservatives:"TED of course stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and I'll talk a bit about all three. I Think TED actually stands for: middlebrow megachurch infotainment." Yes and No. The whole thing is worth reading, but a couple of grafs from the close to give you
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Quote of the Day: Michael Lind
In hindsight, the neoliberal cure was far worse than the New Deal liberal disease. The maturity of the New Deal's system of regulated managerial capitalism coincided with the post-World War II boom and the greatest expansion of the middle class in American history. Consumer advocates, however, blamed it for stifling diversity, libertarians and conservatives claimed
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Intrinsic Motivation and the “School Cliff”
(h/t Dan PInk) In my ongoing effort to define what Liberalism 5.0 might mean, I want at some point to talk about the work of buisness writer Dan Pink, whose books Whole New Mind, Drive, and most recently, To Sell is Human, are important contributions to our understanding about work and motivation. His reporting on
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Liberalism 5.0?, Part 2
Last week I posted about Walter Russell Mead's article "The Once and Future Liberalism." There is much in it I like, and I think he is correct when he attributes the political impasse that we are in to a futile argument between "conservatives"–Liberal 4.1 types (i.e., New Deal/Great Society Democrats) and reactionaries– Liberal 3.0 types,
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Gov. Jerry Brown’s State of the State
Is Jerry Brown the model for Liberalism 5.0? Every once in a while a major politician shocks by actually speaking in a way that politicians rarely speak, i.e., in a way that suggests that he really "gets it". What are the chances considering all the filters that prevent such people from seeing things other than
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Liberalism 5.0?
The core institutions, ideas and expectations that shaped American life for the sixty years after the New Deal don’t work anymore. The gaps between the social system we inhabit and the one we now need are becoming so wide that we can no longer paper over them. But even as the failures of the old