Smoldering Fire in Big Sur
There’s mighty powerful influences around. I’m halfway through a two-day trip up Highway 1, camping out at Big Sur. Quite the quintessential Californian adventure, I must say. I’m not sure if it’s […]
Category Archives: Politics and Society
Containing posts discussing social issues and theory, political issues and theory, and the occasional affair with economics.
I wrote a column!
As some of you may know, I spent the first few seasons of college writing for Berkeley’s marvelous independent student newspaper, The Daily Californian. I was an arts writer, and […]
Idle Thoughts While Studying Political Economy
Reading Dani Rodrik‘s 1997 essay “Has Globalization Gone too Far”, he asserts (during a discussion of common critiques of globalization) that “A common view is that the complaints of nongovernmental organizations […]
An Academic Interaction
I was just starting to read Logicomix again tonight when I started reflecting back on interactions I’d had with other academics. One that really sticks out in my mind occurred […]
Art by Majority, II
Hey world, I wanted to follow-up on the last Art by Majority post and expand on the high oratory that’s been surrounding the nexus between introspection and action. In the […]
Art by Majority
After two and half years and four co-ops, I’ve noticed something interesting about co-op councils (“council” is the common term for the weekly or bi-monthly housewide meetings where the house […]
Selections from “The Prophet”
As a sort of addendum to my previous post, I thought it would be valuable to share two chapters from Khalil Gibran‘s “The Prophet.” To contextualize, the book is a […]
