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Wisdom

Eric Alterman | wisdom

As a parent and a citizen, I’ll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs’s example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

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technology

Eric Alterman | technology

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

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science

Eric Alterman | science

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

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politics

Eric Alterman | politics

Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system – like our physical existence – still breaks down along geographical lines.

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politics

Eric Alterman | politics

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics – just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

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learning

Eric Alterman | learning

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

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Eric Alterman | imagination

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin’s ‘Courant,’ it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America’s last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

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hope

Eric Alterman | hope

If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets – without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain – who average nearly $24 million a year in income – ‘next year.’

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hope

Eric Alterman | hope

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

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history

Eric Alterman | history

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

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