New Orleans Being home for a short spell, as a treat we’ve been watching some television before the lights go off. Recently, we’ve been catching an episode on an almost nightly basis of “Rita,” a series on Danish television about an anti-authoritarian, but deeply committed and wildly popular school teacher. Last year, I watched several …
Category: Ideas and Issues
The “Disappearing Organizer” and Accountability
New Orleans David Brooks, a columnist for the New York Times, has written an interesting piece arguing that there is a “new power structure.” This structure, he says, is non-hierarchical and decentralized with a diffusion of ownership and loose affiliations. He claims this new notion of building organizational formations responses to a new level of …
Strategies for Dealing with Privacy as a Lost Cause
New Orleans As Facebook slips off its pedestal of pretense and posturing about its contribution to the common good that has disguised its brutal capitalist commitments and real priorities, it’s worth wondering if claims to protect consumers’ privacy are just more empty promises. Personal privacy may be just a lost cause and a battle engaged …