Links

How WikiLeaks needs competitors – and democracy a Whistleblowing Charter
I suggested in my previous post that the WikiLeaks publishing model – with a moderately [...]
The Greasy-Pole Theorem (or more on professionalising politics)
Yesterday, I suggested that politicians – as opposed to evidence-based professionals like lawyers, doctors, scientists [...]
On the real reason why socialism never took root in the US
This quote, allegedly from John Steinbeck, just came my way via Facebook: “Socialism never took [...]
On translation layers, political innovation and saving politics from itself (or how you can always trust a hippy)
Paul Evans writes profoundly – even if too occasionally of late – over at Never [...]
A Warlike Sunday
Remembrance Sunday doesn’t mean we forget wars. Today, the political and religious landscape seems to [...]
A world where labour hires capital instead of capital hiring labour
I’ve been thinking about this subject for a while. Never a good sign. So is [...]
Google-America’s one-best-way socialism (or the real End of History as we knew it)
In the face of a wider defeat of Communism, Soviet socialism initially decided to turn [...]