Brooklyn In one of the performative episodes in the divided Congress, two or three might still remember some of the yahoos thought that they would embarrass somebody by having hearings in New York City about crime. Yawn. Anyway, Ohio’s raging Jim Jordan’s big blurb that made news everywhere is that his big reveal on …
Ben Smith and Anne Braden in the Wade Wayback Machine
Brooklyn Thanks to my darling daughter, over the last year or so, before I make a long drive whether to Texas, Arkansas, or Georgia, I make sure I’ve got some audiobooks handy. There’s Audible, the Amazon product, and then there’s Libby, the free site from our public library. I was pretty desperate, as I …
Businesses in Retreat from Cultural Wars
New Orleans Anyone who ever thought that corporations were going to help lead changes in American culture and society are sadly disappointed at the screeching of tires as companies put any notion of such a role into rear gear. A torrent of recent reports clearly documents the corporate world in retreat from earlier …


