Uneven Developments
Toxic Island
March 16, 2011
Yesterday I met and interviewed a very interesting Staten Island denizen named Debby Davis. I discovered her through the Toxic […]
Read PostShipping News
March 7, 2011
I live next to the New York City harbor, in a Staten Island neighborhood called St. George. It’s an atmospheric […]
Read PostThe Royal Stutter
February 28, 2011
Last night the British movie The King’s Speech won big at the Oscars. I didn’t watch the ceremonies, but I […]
Read PostJustice, Deferred but not Denied
February 16, 2011
Big oil largely does whatever it wants around the world. In country after country, corrupt plutocrats shill for oil companies […]
Read PostPan-Arabism, Take Two
February 11, 2011
Mubarak is gone! Lost in the incredibly gripping stories emerging from Egypt in recent weeks has been any discussion of […]
Read PostA Walk on the Wilde Side
February 10, 2011
My friend Nick Frankel has just brought out a new edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. It’s […]
Read PostRunning Dry
February 9, 2011
Oil prices are beginning to climb back towards the historical highs they’d reached before the economic collapse of 2008. They’re […]
Read PostParched Lungs
The Amazon rainforest is often analogized to the lungs of planet Earth. If this analogy holds true, these lungs are […]
Read PostRevolutionary Roots
February 8, 2011
Commodity prices are sky high for the third time in as many years. While the resulting high prices for food […]
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