Chris Hayes – Washington editor of The Nation magazine and host of MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes – has just completed his first book on the dysfunction of United States’ élite and prescriptions for social change. Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy asserts that our society’s obsession with the notion of meritocracy has led [...]
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Twilight of the Elites
Posted by admin on June 21, 2012
http://www.born2synthesize.com/2012/06/twilight-of-the-elites/
The Jacobin Club
I’ve been thinking a lot about The Jacobin Club lately. Partly because I’ve been criticizing the Tea Party for being closeted French radicals, and partly because both sides of the ideological spectrum in America seem to have lost their foundations. Not because of the spectacular flame-out that the Jacobins brought upon themselves, alienating their movement [...]
Posted by admin on December 15, 2010
http://www.born2synthesize.com/2010/12/the-jacobin-club/
The Liberal Gene
Something interesting has been happening in the study of gene-environment interactions. The October issue of The Journal of Politics published a paper entitled “Friendships Moderate an Association between a Dopamine Gene Variant and Political Ideology” (by Settle, Dawes, Christakis and Fowler.) In short, biologists have found that a gene is helpful in predicting political ideology. [...]
Posted by admin on December 6, 2010
http://www.born2synthesize.com/2010/12/the-liberal-gene/
My Response To Dennis Prager
William F. Buckley called. He rolled over in his grave and can’t light his smoke. Dennis Prager, a syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist for the National Review Online, wrote a piece that was published on the NPR website November 2nd. It explains his reasoning for straight-ticket voting, and the argument deserves a response. I’m [...]
Posted by admin on November 4, 2010
http://www.born2synthesize.com/2010/11/my-response-to-dennis-prager/