Worth A Look: Harold Wilensky

This interview is part of the Institute’s “Conversations with History” series, and uses Internet technology to share with the public Berkeley’s distinction as a global forum for ideas. In this landmark work, the culmination of thirty years of systematic, comprehensive comparison of nineteen rich democracies, Wilensky answers two basic questions: What is distinctly modern about …

Journal: Environmental Lip Service vs the Real Deal

Reid, Herbert G. and Taylor, Betsy, :John Dewey’s Aesthetic Ecology of Public Intelligence and the Grounding of Civic Environmentalism” in Ethics & the Environment – Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2003, pp. 74-92 This paper argues for the importance of John Dewey’s aesthetic philosophy to recent efforts to cultivate civic environmentalism while critiquing narrowly conservationist …

Review: Day of Reckoning–How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart

One of A Handful of “Must Reads” for Christmas December 13, 2007 Patrick Buchanan Amazon ate my earlier review, probably because they did not like all the links I included to make the point that while Patrick Buchanan is dead on target as an individual minds, there is a *huge* convergence of public opinion from …