Sublime
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Pundits on television news programs discuss politics as a horse race or compare the effectiveness of pseudo-events staged by candidates. They do not discuss ideas, issues, or meaningful reform.
Chris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
news that’s fit to print,” but it delivered a large enough proportion of published topics that, as a practical proposition,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
David Brooks • Opinion | The Future of Nonconformity (Published 2020)
The three legs of the progressive stool are the universities, the media, and the government. For the New Right, the universities are the source of the other two.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
University of Texas sociologist Bill Bishop, in his recent book The Big Sort: Why Clustering of Like-Minded Americans Is Tearing Us Apart, claims that Americans over the last three decades have “been reshaping the way they lived. . . . In every corner of society, people were creating new, more homgenous groups. . . . Churches filled with people who
... See moreJohn W. Stewart • Envisioning the Congregation, Practicing the Gospel
The Ford Foundation was so committed to the enterprise that it established a separate nonprofit dedicated to the cause. “Learning is the new growth industry,” exulted its president, Harold Gores.
Margaret O'Mara • The Code
It and programs like it have become part of the texture of gay life, part of the media ecologies that shape our daily practices and desires, that transform how we think of ourselves and how we move through the world.