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For Most Americans, The Worst Consequences of The Economic Crisis Are Yet To Come
If you read the newspapers, watch the news, and search the internet for new of the economic crisis, you will get the impression that the global recession is easing and may soon “bottom out.” The Obama Administration’s stimulus package, coupled with a infusion of funds into the banking system by TARP and the Federal Reserve, [...]
Sotomayor’s Appointment Highlights a Time When Public Housing Was a Place of Hope
There are many wonderful things about Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment to the US Supreme Court, but one of special interest to me, as a scholar of Bronx history, is the way it highlights an era when public housing was a place of hope and possibility for working class families in the borough. Today, public housing is [...]
Why Traditional Media is Dead
Take everything you know about traditional media and throw it out a ten story window. Laugh gleefully at its destruction and enjoy a baser instinct than your probably used to for the briefest of moments, go ahead. You will get far more joy that way than holding onto obsolete learning in an era of monumental [...]
National Review Online runs tasteless fear-mongering 9/11 ad
The National Review Online, perhaps the premier online journal for the conservative viewpoint, has a post today on “The Jim Cramer Treatment” that I was going to respond to until I saw this advertisement plastered on the page of their blog: The ad is as tasteless as it is offensive. I was at Fordham University [...]
