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‘humans are Cheaper’
I have already cited Robert Greenwald’s 2005 documentary The High Cost of Low Price as a source for viewing the “new dark side” of manufacturing as a sign of the impact of the “Wal-Mart economy” on manufacturing in this brave new world of...
A Confrontation Between PBS And HBO?
Time (and possibly a sense of irony) should soon tell if Brian Wheeler’s piece for BBC News this morning, “The US cult of Downton Abbey,” was premature. Wheeler neglected to mention that, for those more interested in solid drama rather than ...
Redirecting the Attacks on Apple
This morning Larry Dignan used a post to the Between the Lines blog on ZDNet to give “equal time” to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, in the face of the beating that Apple has been taking from two extended reports in The New York Times by Charles Duhigg,...
How is the Economy Healing?
The BBC News Web site just put up a report whose lead sentence is optimistic, at least on the surface: The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said its services index rose to 52.6 last month from 52 in November. A reading above 50 indicates expansion. Needless...
Apocalypse 2012?
It was informative to read Mark Lilla’s piece in the latest New York Review, “Republicans for Revolution,” just before the Iowa caucus-based primary. Lilla demonstrates that current Republican trends are far from the traditions of conservatism,...
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The Right Word in the Right Language
This may just be politics as usual in Israel, but it is interesting to see just how the leading opposition party there is using today’s mass protest against “gender segregation” (as one report put it) by the ultra-Orthodox extremists of Beit...
Steve Jobs Without the Hagiography
I was wondering whether or not The New York Review of Books would select Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs for consideration and, if so, whom would be assigned the task. The answer can be found in the latest issue (January 12), in which Sue Halpern is...
