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Tag: Jared Diamond

For an audience that may consider the present moment uncritically, Jared Diamond’s “The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?” reminds us that in the headlong rush to modernity, much has been lost.

Posted on Feb 5, 2013 READ MORE

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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Reid challenging Romney’s tax records and two Republican congressional candidates competing to see which one is more intolerant.

Posted on Aug 2, 2012 READ MORE

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This Time We’re Taking the Whole Planet With Us

By Chris Hedges —

We seem condemned as a species to drive ourselves and our societies toward extinction, although this moment appears be the denouement to the whole sad show of settled, civilized life that began some 5,000 years ago.