Wish I could claim authorship on this one (thanks Paul Krugman), but I lack the imagination. Pretty much sums up my position on our economic situation -- the problem is political, not intellectual or analytical:
Thoughts on politics, cities and the state of American life, culture and economics, from the perspective of a pragmatic lefty historian. "Chants Democratic" comes from "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman, the avatar of American Democracy.
About Me
- Mark Santow
- I am Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. I am also the Academic Director of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, in New Bedford MA. Author of "Social Security and the Middle Class Squeeze" (Praeger, 2005) and the forthcoming "Saul Alinsky the Dilemma of Race in the Post-War City" (University of Chicago Press), my teaching and scholarship focuses on American urban history, social policy, and politics. I am presently writing a book on home ownership in modern America.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
The Art of Almost (thanks Wilco), or the screaming chasm between ought and is...
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economic crisis
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