The Young Jews of New York
Nearly five months in New York, and I feel like I’ve started to get acquainted with some of the social worlds humming and shifting in this city. The civic technologists, […]
Category Archives: Politics and Society
Containing posts discussing social issues and theory, political issues and theory, and the occasional affair with economics.
A Veteran Israeli Soldier’s Take on Syria, as Told Over Cigarettes
On Thursday night my family had dinner at my Israeli cousin’s house. She’s a young mother, with three adorable children (aged 2 months to about 5 years) and a fascinating, […]
Art by Majority, III
This is a post I drafted back in May 2012, but forgot to actually publish. It’s the third installment of a three-part series (part 1, part 2) on the political […]
Final Travel Article is up on HuffPo
I wrote a big sort of “lessons-learned” blog post for the Huffington Post’s travel blog (where I’ve been an erratic fixture this past half-year) summarizing some of the lessons I’ve […]
First Impressions of “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality”
I’m about a third of the way of Ken Wilber’s Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, and I wanted to take some time to note my impressions before going further. It’s a remarkable […]
Sharing: “An Education for Empire”
An Education for Empire: The Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford Foundations in the Construction of Knowledge I just finished this excerpt from the Canadian “independent researcher” Andrew Gavin Marshall concerning the […]
The Dogs Have Balls
This post is a (lengthy) excerpt from a letter I wrote to a good friend summarizing some of my impressions of the poverty of India and reflecting on the work […]
माया
I’ll preface this by saying that that this post took me about two months to finally finish, and was a struggle almost every step of the way. I’m always cautious […]
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