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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoCan gratitude save humanity? - UnHerd2024-03-25T21:26:42+00:00
https://unherd.com/2023/01/can-gratitude-save-humanity/
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https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374605445/whentheclockbroke
robertogrecohistory 1990s us politics crownheights davidduke survivalists rushlimbaugh neoconservatives neoconservatism paleo-con 1992 patbuchanan rossperot populism asia coldwar conspiracytheories billclinton radicalism ronaldreagan catholicism socialmedia conservatism conservatives abstraction theory johnganzhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:870951c6885d/Know Your Enemy: René Girard and the Right, with John Ganz - Dissent Magazine2024-02-27T15:05:11+00:00
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-rene-girard-and-the-right-with-john-ganz/
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/san-fransicko/id1651876897?i=1000631845589
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-brookss-bobos-in-paradise/id1651876897?i=1000586553668
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https://jacobin.com/2024/02/postwar-nostalgia-equality-progress-unions
robertogrecodustinguastella matthewygesias 2024 history wellbeing via:daniellucas civics society us equality inequality consumption consumerism wealth individualism reaganism politics economics deathsofdespair community progress capitalism socialism civilrightsmovement conservatism liberalism billclinton smartphones cars cities philadelphia safety cohesion 1960s midcentury shaylynromneygarrett donaldtrump peterlindert jeffreywilliamson postwar votingrightsact civilrightsact comity robertputnam rajcjetty yonatanberman economicmobility progressive progressivism 1910s 1965 taxes redistribution berniesanders hillaryclinton maxweber neoliberalism determinismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:67aa0aa35e76/Rebecca Solnit · In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco2024-02-02T03:46:27+00:00
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/rebecca-solnit/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CNOS0v8v5c
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/magazine/san-francisco-homelessness.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz68ILyuWtA
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https://speakingoutofplace.com/2023/09/13/on-the-obligation-to-killjoy-sara-ahmed-on-the-feminist-killjoy-handbook/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcBNfYWSw9w
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6MLtFeZcak
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https://archive.is/rYEe5
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https://tricycle.org/magazine/buddhism-without-beliefs/
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https://thedigradio.com/podcast/crack-up-capitalism-w-quinn-slobodian/
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https://web.archive.org/web/20220916075125/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1942/07/middlebrow-a-letter-written-but-not-sent/654308/
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https://social.ayjay.org/2023/03/15/heres-another-one.html
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https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-essay/2023/03/gramsci-florida-republican-party
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https://techwontsave.us/episode/155_the_untold_history_of_silicon_valley_w_malcolm_harris
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https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-the-right-kind-of-worker-with-gabriel-winant
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https://www.propublica.org/article/barre-seid-heartland-institute-hillsdale-college-gmu
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvCRF4V-NeQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x1SXZi9O1o
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/28/wendell-berrys-advice-for-a-cataclysmic-age
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCjUccnSFU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITrm5BdeukA
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https://know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/unlocked-freud-and-politics-w-pat-blanchfield
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https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/dan-sherrell-warmth-qa/
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https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-dawn-of-everything-w-david-wengrow/
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https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/the-swedish-model-social-democracy-the-imperialist-world-system-with-torkil-lauesen
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/chesa-boudin-recall-san-francisco.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLK68dagC6E
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https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/ill-with-want
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https://thepointmag.com/criticism/when-losing-is-likely/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgGF8w_0E9s
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https://soundcloud.com/eetheducationesearcher/the-sociology-of-education-policy-stephen-ball
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4OGYc7cvKo
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https://twitter.com/pecunium/status/1256251756377448449
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https://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/614432807769571328
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https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-millennialgen-z-strategy
robertogreco(1) The unemployment rate among recent college graduates in the U.S. is now higher than our country’s overall unemployment rate for the first time in over two decades, (2) More than 40 percent of recent college graduates are working jobs that do not traditionally require a bachelor’s degree (while one in eight are stuck in posts that pay $25,000 or less), and (3) the median income among the bottom half of college graduates is roughly 10 percent lower than it was three decades ago.
This is the millennial (and Old Gen-Zer) reality: an “anchor of student debt,” as Levitz puts it, taken out in the hopes of achieving fabled economic security. But who convinced us that college was going to solve, well, everything? In the book I’m finally finished writing on millennial burnout (actual cover coming soon, I promise) I try to work through that question: how did we come to believe in “(the best) college at any cost”? (See also: grad school at any cost).
A lot of the answer can be traced to “the education gospel,” a term coined by an economist (W. Norton Grubb) and a sociologist (Marvin Laverson) to describe the nexus of ideologies (about the future of America and democracy; about how to beat the USSR, then Japan, then China; about how the economy could replace the manufacturing jobs displaced by globalization) that undergird “college at any cost.”
Grubb and Laverson chose the word “gospel” to evoke just how ideological integrated — how naturalized — the idea had become. Of course more education is better than less education; of course you should go to college by any means necessary — even when the costs of that college outweigh the benefits, despite increasing evidence that college is not “worth” its cost for those who drop-out, or for those who come from lower-class backgrounds. They point to a study from the National Commission on the High School Senior year, released in 2001: “In the agricultural age, post-secondary college was a pipe dream for most Americans,” it declared. “In the Industrial Age, it was the birthright of only a few. By the space age it became common for many. Today, it is just common sense for all.”
The roots of this “common sense” go back to the mid-20th century, when the government decided to create the grant and loan programs that made it much, much easier for people to go to college. In 1947, 4.2% of women and 6.2% of men had a college degree; in 2018, those numbers had risen to 35.3% and 34.6% — but that’s of the entire population. A more useful statistic is the percentage of high school graduates who immediately enroll in college: which, in 2016, was 69.7%.
And here’s where the stats become really telling. For the group of students who started college — any type of college — in 2011, only 56.9% had finished their degree by 2017. Around 70% of graduates have student debt of some sort; in 2016, the average debt load was $37,172. That’s a huge amount of debt, especially given the fact that it’s $20,000 more than it was in 2003.
But that’s the people who have degrees. If you reverse the completion stat above, you realize that 43.1% of students who started college in 2011 had not finished their degree in six years. These are students who believed that college could be a pathway towards success, of stability, or their dream job — but couldn’t make it work. There are so many reasons why people are forced (or choose) to drop out of school, and some do find success and stability because they quit school. But they often have nearly as much debt as those with a degree but none of the credentials to put on their resumes — which helps explain why they’re three times as likely to default on their loans.
The institution that pisses me off the most in this scenario are for-profit colleges, where only 23% of students graduate, and 48% of those who do leave with more than $40,000 in debt. A whopping 52% of student loan defaults come from graduates of for-profit colleges. If you don’t know about the general scamminess and ethical grossness of the for-profit college, I can’t recommend Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Lower Ed enough (you can buy it here, and read an excerpt here).
But if college is theoretically an “equality machine,” then for-profit colleges are inequality machine: they target first generation students, they disproportionately enroll (and fuck over) students of color, they charge massive amounts of money for degrees and education that could be obtained for far less at local community colleges, they jack up their price to the maximum allotted under loan guidelines, and they get away with it because 1) Betsy DeVos and 2) millennials have been so inculcated with the education gospel that, again, we believe that no matter how much it costs, how difficult it will be to complete a degree, how tight the market might be in the field we’re pursuing, the degree itself will be worth it.
To be clear: people with college degrees make more, statistically speaking, than people without college degrees. But the “equality” component of the machine is broken. There’s a massive gap between the promises that floated around that degree — and that includes graduate degrees — and the lived post-degree experience. We’re not talking about liberal arts graduates ski-bumming until they decide they’re ready for that six-figure job. We’re talking about those 40% of graduates working jobs that don’t even require a college degree, and the one in eight working jobs that pay $25,000 or less.
I’ve talked to and heard from hundreds of millennials in this position. If they have loans, they’re either on income-based repayment (and they’re convinced that they’ll be paying them off forever), in default (with reverberations and shame across the rest of their lives), or in deferment (amassing huge amounts of interest). They feel stupid and ashamed that they took out as much money as they did, or pissed that so many forces in their lives — parents, guidance counselors, professors, culture, peers — assured them that it would all work out, if they could just get that degree. It’s hard to convey just how difficult and devastating it is to pay down a broken dream every single month for the rest of your life.
I’ve written extensively about student loans, and the broken state of the student loan forgiveness program, here. That piece was the first thing I wrote after the original millennial burnout article, because it was the most tangible expression of the gap between what millennials were told their future would look like, if only they worked hard enough, and the lived, post-Recession reality. To understand millennial burnout, you can’t just understand the amount of student loans we’re carrying; you have to understand what they feel like. And if and when you understand that, it’s incredibly straightforward to see why so many support Sanders and Warren.
Back in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, middle-class boomers and young Gen-Xers were faced with the reality that their parents’ broadly stable middle-class existence would not necessarily pass down to them. The so-called Golden Age of American Capitalism had lasted just long enough that those who grew up under it could believe that it might last forever. They responded to the decline in stable middle class jobs in a number of ways: many of them, too, went to college, but because public institution funding had yet to be gutted by tax cuts, it cost much, much, much less. (Cue: your boomer uncle who loves to tell you he worked his way through college and graduated without loans).
But as Barbara Ehrenreich persuasively argues in Fear of Falling, they responded by turning decisively inward: how can I do whatever is possible to help me and mine? You could work tirelessly at cutthroat, soulless jobs (investment banking!) no matter the cost (to yourself, to your family, to the environment, to society), adopting what Ehrenreich calls “the yuppie strategy.” Or you could vote for politicians who promised to lower your taxes, make your life better, regardless of the effects on those who didn’t act and spend and look like you. (See: the widespread embrace of Reaganism). As Levitz points out, in 1984, 61% of voters under 25 voted for Reagan. Conservativism — think Michael J. Fox as Alex Keaton from Family Ties — was, I dunno, cool? Not actually cool, but very much mainstream.
The strategy makes “sense,” in so far as it was motivated by self-preservation and fear. And a whole lot of millennials were raised by parents who lived through, if not fully embraced, the guiding ideologies of that period. But it’s fascinating to watch as millennials and Gen-Z — — faced not just with the fear of falling, but the widespread reality — embrace a profoundly different one."]]>genz millennials generations geny education highered highereducation debt studentdebt boomers wnortongrubb ericlevitz unemployment employment wages loans unschooling deschooling educationgospel marvinlaverson ussr coldwar japan china highschool inequality commonsense investment parenting betsydevos nonprofits nonprofit forprofits capitalism berniesanders elizabethwarren barbaraehrenreich ronaldreagan reaganism conservatism familyties alexkeaton michaeljfox tressiemcmillancottom race generationz generationy learning babyboomers zoomershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a06148b61430/(Self-Directed) Education is a Political Act | Alliance for Self-Directed Education2020-02-11T21:07:42+00:00
https://www.self-directed.org/tp/education-is-a-political-act/
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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/01/why-silicon-valley-and-big-tech-dont-innovate-anymore/604969/
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/as-protests-rock-chile-the-people-consider-rewriting-pinochets-constitution
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https://historicly.substack.com/p/requiem-for-obamaism-with-corey-robin
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https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1200990296470904832
robertogreco
as legal adults who are basically hostages for the means of life itself, their parents can wield homophobia over them. Demand their trans “adult children” not get hormones or gender affirming surgery. Deny birth control. Wield stigma.
It’s not good, and it makes no legal sense.
No wonder old Dems like the youngest candidate (Pete) & young Dems like the oldest (Bernie):
Pete is trying to reinforce the existing, conservative social order.
Bernie is offering something akin to queer liberation by way of liberated access to learning & health.”]]>medicareforall healthcare infantilization policy us heteronormativity sexuality petebuttigieg berniesanders insurance healthinsurance marriage neoliberalism patriarchy conservatism democrats election 2019 2020 queer liberation health education highered highereducation financialaid control parents learninghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c24846b97e66/Why Equity Has Been a Conservative Force in American Education—And How That Could Change - Next Gen Learning in Action - Education Week2019-10-16T04:46:36+00:00
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/next_gen_learning/2019/02/why_equity_conservative_force_American_education.html
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https://hewn.substack.com/p/hewn-no-324
robertogrecoThere is a very good reason that questions of that kind are uncomfortable. When we ask this question, we may discover that Johnny is hungry when he comes to school, or that Johnny comes from a milieu in which reading is irrelevant to concrete problems or survival on the street — that is, there is no chance to read, it is a violent milieu, and so on.
You might discover that, and then you might ask the next question: “Why is it that Johnny comes to school hungry? Don’t we have school breakfast programs and lunch programs?” The answer to that might be, yes, we used to, but we don’t any more.
Why is there so much poverty in our world, in the United States, especially in the large cities? Why is it that classes are so large? Why is it that fully half the science and math teachers in the United States are underqualified and are operating on emergency certificates?
When you ask questions like that, you come upon some very important and very tragic facts about America. One of the things you would discover is that education has a very much lower priority in the United States than do a great many other things, most particularly the military.
It is much nicer, it is much more comfortable, to have some device, say the computer, with which to flood the schools, and then to sit back and say, “You see, we are doing something about it, we are helping,” than to confront ugly social realities.
Sesame Street was one education technology that, from its outset, did try to confront those social realities. The show, first pitched by Joan Ganz Cooney in a 1966 report to the Carnegie Foundation, recognized that “disadvantaged children are inadequately stimulated and motivated during the preschool years and the belief that the right kind of early intervention can provide adequate compensation have done much to create the present ferment in cognitive development research and preschool education.” The initial mission: create a show for public (not commercial) television that would develop school readiness of viewers age 3 to 5, with particular emphasis on the needs of low-income children and children of color.
Sesame Street is the most researched television show in history — not only in its reception but in its development. From the outset, there was attention to repetition and sequencing, for example. There was careful consideration of when to use straightforwardness and when to use fantasy; consideration of how dramatic tension and humor affected comprehension. With a mission of reaching preschoolers of color, Sesame Street cast actors of color. The curriculum was relevant and meaningful and age-appropriate. Sesame Street knew the problem; it hoped to be a solution.
And then in 2015, it moved from PBS to HBO. It started a venture capital arm the following year (to invest in “data-driven education products that promote personalized learning and educational technology”). This week, it moved from HBO to HBO Max, an even more exclusive streaming service.
What made Sesame Street decide to abandon its mission? What made it think that ed-tech investment was the solution to early childhood education, to childhood poverty, to racism and discrimination? Not research, that’s for damn sure. Not a commitment to social justice. Somewhere along the way, Sesame Street decided that the brand, the computer trumped social change.
Weizenbaum again:
I think the computer has from the beginning been a fundamentally conservative force. It has made possible the saving of institutions pretty much as they were, which otherwise might have had to be changed. For example, banking. Superficially, it looks as if banking has been revolutionized by the computer. But only very superficially. Consider that, say 20, 25 years ago, the banks were faced with the fact that the population was growing at a very rapid rate, many more checks would be written than before, and so on. Their response was to bring in the computer. …
Now if it had not been for the computer, if the computer had not been invented, what would the banks have had to do? They might have had to decentralize, or they might have had to regionalize in some way. In other words, it might have been necessary to introduce a social invention, as opposed to the technical invention.
What the coming of the computer did, “just in time,” was to make it unnecessary to create social inventions, to change the system in any way. So in that sense, the computer has acted as fundamentally a conservative force, a force which kept power or even solidified power where is already existed.
They might have blocked off Sesame Street, but we can’t let the bankers and the tech CEOs win."]]>audreywatters 2019 edtech sesamestreet josephweizenbaum education computing computers compsci learning benwilliamson history conservatismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2c488e9fe8cb/The Conservative Black Nationalism of Clarence Thomas | Boston Review2019-09-29T04:45:11+00:00
https://bostonreview.net/race/joshua-cohen-corey-robin-conservative-black-nationalism-clarence-thomas
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/clarence-thomass-radical-vision-of-race
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https://theoutline.com/post/6414/why-universities-are-conservative?zd=1&zi=rlurr7ej
robertogrecoedburmila 2018 colleges universities academia highered highereducation labor politics liberalism capitalism corporatism leftists conservatismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1f15edd382f3/Thread by @ecomentario: "p.31 ecoed.wikispaces.com/file/view/C.+A… ecoed.wikispaces.com/file/view/C.+A… p.49 ecoed.wikispaces.com/file/view/C.+A… ecoed.wikispaces.co […]"2018-06-20T23:02:58+00:00
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https://45minuteradiohour.libsyn.com/67-carl-abrahamsson-mitch-horowitz-in-occulture-meta-anton-lavey-spiritual-migration-re-enchanting-the-mind-0
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http://www.mrbauld.com/conlibsoc.html
robertogrecopolitics via:ayjay conservatism liberalism security socialism society philosophy enlightenment envy vanity greed aggression brotherhood love altruism despotism happiness peace freedom humans economics bureaucracy democracy pessimism conflict leszekkolakowskihttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:00798fc103b7/Lingua Franca - February 2001 | Cover Story: The Ex-Cons2017-09-14T03:55:56+00:00
http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/print/0101/cover_cons.html
robertogreco2001 efficiency capitalism policy politics alangreenspan edwardluttwak freemarkets humans humanism love family attachment community culture canon inefficiency economics slow small coreyrobin charity poverty markets welfarestate dignity normanpodhoretz karlmarx marxism johngray conservatism thatcherism ronaldreagan elitism kurtvonnegut nicholascarr parentinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:07bfb7ce7cc1/“Neoliberalism” isn’t an empty epithet. It’s a real, powerful set of ideas. - Vox2017-07-20T00:06:44+00:00
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/18/15992226/neoliberalism-chait-austerity-democratic-party-sanders-clinton
robertogreconeoliberalism capitalism democrats history politics 2017 mikekonczal jonathanchait billgalston elainekamarck newdeal liberalism conservatism economics policy liberalization privatization government governance josephstiglitz globalization markets berniesanders ideology dvidorsborne tedgaebler finance banking boblitan jonathanruch education corporations 1988 ronaldreaganhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7233a015cb23/The new political divide | The Economist2016-07-29T22:39:35+00:00
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21702750-farewell-left-versus-right-contest-matters-now-open-against-closed-new
robertogrecous europe politics openness division donaldtrump hillaryclinton 2016 elections brexit globalization progressivism conservatism wto france emmanuelmacron justintrudeau canada nato sweden netherlands marielepenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1993634c5203/Acclaimed Toronto author Austin Clarke dead at 81 | Toronto Star2016-06-28T17:55:19+00:00
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/06/26/acclaimed-toronto-author-austin-clarke-dead-at-81.html
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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post/discoveries/
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/opinion/bret-easton-ellis-on-living-in-the-cult-of-likability.html
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http://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene-for-risk-they-come-from-families-with-money/
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http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/harmony-communion-incarnation-laudato-si-pope-francis/
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http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/08/26/the-creation-and-destruction-of-habits/
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/09/345289127/when-scientists-give-up
robertogrecoacademia research funding 2014 conservatism risk risktaking certainty uncertainty competition us highered highereducationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c7249954c377/New Statesman | Jon Cruddas's speech on radical hope: full text2014-07-02T22:36:37+00:00
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/07/jon-cruddass-speech-radical-hope-full-text
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http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/06/11/the-deliberate-practice-of-disruption/
robertogrecovenkateshrao flow disruption 2014 metacognition conservatism establishment closedworlds disciplines practice taboos mindset change mutations openworlds gatekeepers cv aekwardness mavericks sociopathy rewards motivation social groupthink sacredness performancehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cefa15b9abb6/Alex Payne — Mob Rule2014-04-24T05:06:19+00:00
https://al3x.net/2014/04/23/mob.html
robertogrecoalexpayne 2014 mozilla brendaneich society democracy change discrimination mobrule power control privilege inequality freedom freedomofspeech github marriage accountability values socialjustice justice conservatism rhetoric conservaitiveshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4fd93dba61eb/The conservative case against capitalism - The Week2014-04-08T17:22:30+00:00
http://theweek.com/article/index/259154/the-conservative-case-against-capitalism
robertogrecoWith the red hair of one she-urchin in the gutter I will set fire to all modern civilization. Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home: because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be an usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property, because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution. That little urchin with the gold-red hair, whom I have just watched toddling past my house, she shall not be lopped and lamed and altered; her hair shall not be cut short like a convict's; no, all the kingdoms of the earth shall be hacked about and multilated to suit her. She is the human and sacred image; all around her the social fabric shall sway and slip and fall; the pillars of society shall be shaken, and the roofs of ages come rushing down; and not one hair of her head shall be harmed."]]>capital capitalism conservatism economics via:ayjay 2014 gkchesterson thomaspiketty ryancooper michaelbrendandougherty freedom independence distributists hilairebeloc dignity labor propertyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5a9861afd8e8/SpeEdChange: Why we think 1970s Open Education failed, and considering what the truth really is...2014-02-24T20:01:47+00:00
http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-we-think-1970s-open-education.html
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