Meditations From the Brink of an Economic Abyss

By Sheldon Greaves The national upheaval caused by the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin has dominated the headlines for the last few days, and rightly so. You can almost feel a qualitative difference in the anger, … Continue reading

Kairos: That Moment When Everything Changes

There are moments when you can feel in your bones that everything is about to change. The ancient Greeks had a word for this particular, special moment: Kairos.

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What Working From Home Reveals About Work in America

By Sheldon The working lives of Americans–at least the ones who are still working–has been upended with more and more of us working from home. For our family, this is old stuff. Tor the last ten years at least, and … Continue reading

Against the Disrupters

By Sheldon Greaves I ran across an invigorating little piece in Salon recently titled, “Silicon Valley makes everything worse: Four industries that Big Tech has ruined.” by Kieth A. Spencer. It expands on the matter of “disruption”, which is one … Continue reading

The College Admissions Scandal and How We Got Here

The college admissions scandal is just part of a deeper, dirtier malaise infecting higher education.

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The Case for “Eastern Civ”

By Sheldon Greaves If you’ve been to college, you have probably taken a course called “Western Civilization” or “Western Civ” for short. It was probably a required course, which means you did all you could to get through it quickly … Continue reading

Books Received: Utopia Drive

A tantalizing look at more equitable local economies, past, present, and future.

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