“So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
Photo: E. Lombardi Vagrant is the ornithological term for a species of bird spotted well outside its normal range.
Heather Cox Richardson in conversation with The Straddler Heather Cox Richardson, Cambridge, MA, 2015 Photo: Mark Ostow On April 10, 2015, The Straddler met with Heather Cox Richardson in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
On June 2, 2015, The Straddler met with Kazys Varnelis in Midtown Manhattan for a conversation about the history and future of suburbs and cities.
Virtue LAW: The presence or absence of goodness —of which absence of a sense of self—the inability to distinguish a self in a context of other selves
A pile of American bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertilizer, mid 1870s from the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library (via Wikicommons)
Dean Baker, Washington, DC, 2015 Photo: Jeff Adkins On May 27th, The Straddler met with Dean Baker at his offices in Washington, D.C. Baker, a macroeconomist who is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy, has long been a vocal critic of the patent and copyright systems.
I. In a basement on Lexington Avenue in Brooklyn, DJ Hitman 50 Grand spun the “Impeach the President” break for a young MC he’d met earlier that day.
In Paul Goodman’s 1935 short story “The Boy Scouts of Westhampton,” a fictional group of scouts eagerly looks on as a rival troop takes part in make-believe war drills.
