Well, what a week. Over the past few days we’ve seen Team…
Tag: publicsphere
Once you have reduced the Tahrir Square protests to a call for Western-style democracy, as Applebaum does, of course it becomes ridiculous to compare the Wall Street protests with the events in Egypt: how can protesters in the West demand what the…
It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America???s direction. Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and pundits who rel…
Nothing’s highlighted the weaknesses of the corporate media better than their obvious befuddlement with this particular story. The spanking laid on Kevin O’Leary by Chris Hedges last week is a particularly egregious example. In between the condesc…