Jared Diamond has an interesting essay at the current issue of New Yorker, " Vengeance Is Ours ", that is worth considering. In the essay, Diamond not only describes the moral and political economy of cycles of personal and inter-tribal vengeance in one of the relatively stateless area of the...
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TokyoTom
on Wed, Apr 30 2008
Filed under: state, rent-seeking, war, cognition, vengeance, hostility, manipulation, justice, Jared Diamond
... with the federal government, state and union all firmly in the pocket of coal firms. This seems to be a classic case, on a huge scale, of the difficulties individual property owners and communities face when confronting clearly wrongful acts by large corporations with deep pockets - and how easily...
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TokyoTom
on Mon, Mar 3 2008
Filed under: state, Coal, mining, mountaintop removal, Appalachia, statism, power
... is what poor countries need. So corrrectly argues Keith Lockitch of the Ayn Rand Institute , in a new article that responds to the agreement, by the delegates of industrialized nations at the December climate change conference in Bali, to activate an “adaptation fund” that would help...
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on Mon, Jan 21 2008
Filed under: climate, development, state, ostrom, lockitch, lomborg, goklany, adler, Enviro Derangement Syndrome
There's a short but good interview here of Harold Bloom, Yale literature professor and cultural critic (update: NOT to be confused with the long late Allan Bloom, author of Closing of the American Mind; my bad!): http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/73720/?comments=view&cID=811026&pID=810862#c811026