Daily Wisdom: The Power of the Word
From Joseph Conrad: He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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Daily Wisdom: 8 Facts the Media Won’t Tell You
Our discussion about Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman made it clear that the US media doesn’t fully inform the American public. Paul Buchheit, writing at Alternet, gives eight examples of things the media just isn’t telling us, including the fact that many American companies generate most of their revenue in the U.S. and pay more […]
A Bit of Iceland
The rest of the Iceland photos are here.
Daily Wisdom: Growing US Inequality
The debate about the growth in income inequality in the United States was framed by Occupy Wall Street as the gap between the top 1% and the 99% of Americans in the majority. New research shows that the share at of the wealth has increasingly been concentrated in the hands of a much small group, […]
Daily Wisdom: The Overprotected Kid
Are American kids stripped of their independence, denied the chance to take risks, and unable to make discoveries on their own? The Atlantic’s Hanna Rosin argues that’s the case–and we’re not even making kids safer in the process: It’s hard to absorb how much childhood norms have shifted in just one generation. Actions that would […]