Patrick Meier: How to Crowdsource Better Governance in Authoritarian States

How to Crowdsource Better Governance in Authoritarian States I was recently asked to review this World Bank publication entitled: “The Role of Crowdsourcing for Better Governance in Fragile States Contexts.” I had been looking for just this type of research on crowdsourcing for a long time and was therefore well pleased to read this publication. This …

Eagle: How the Public Schools Keep Your Child a Prisoner of the State

How the Public Schools Keep Your Child a Prisoner of the State Karen De Coster LewRockwell.com, 31 January 2012 Public education, in its current state, is based on the idea that government is the “parent” best equipped to provide children with the values and wisdom required to grow into intelligent, functional adults. To echo what …

Review (Guest): World in Crisis – The End of the American Century

Gabriel Kolko 5.0 out of 5 stars Simplify, Simplify, Simplify,June 22, 2009< By Tracy McLellan (Chicago) – See all my reviews One could almost condense the whole of Kolko thought into a single sentence: “Political problems have political and social, not military solution.” He says this at least four or five times in the current …

Jon Lebkowsky: Gothic High-Tech by Bruce Sterling

Publication Date: January 31, 2012 THE FUTURE IS A KIND OF HISTORY THAT HASN’T HAPPENED YET “He’s the legendary Cyberpunk Guru. He roams our postmodern planet, from the polychrome tinsel of Los Angeles to the chicken-fried cyberculture of Austin… From the heretical Communist slums of gritty Belgrade to the Gothic industrial castles of artsy Torino… …