“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” Four years on, the heady idealism of 2008 makes me cringe …
Continue reading Posted in Essays, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged David Cameron, Obama, Occupy, riots, socialism | Leave a commentLETTER On Food “Nobody cares if you know about Mozart or Leonardo anymore, but you had better be able to discuss the difference between ganache and couverture.” ESSAYS A Plea for Human Food [Charles Comey] The fact that the most …
Continue reading Posted in General | Tagged animals, burning man, mad men, paleo, retromania, socialism | Leave a commentThroughout most of the twentieth century both critics and defenders of capitalism believed that “another world was possible.” This alternative was generally called “socialism.” The Right condemned socialism as violating individual rights to private property and unleashing monstrous forms of …
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