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Bill Barnes
Charles Murray’s new book, Coming Apart,
is a lament—wrapped around some data and analysis—for an American
community and individual qualities that never existed but…
Bill Barnes
There’s not much that’s cheerful in Charles Murray’s Coming Apart or Thomas Edsall’s Age of Austerity: no Fred and Ginger, no Ozzie…
Bill Barnes
A good national conversation about inequality would be useful.
The
prospects may seem poor because the current federal election campaigns
are shaping up as more wild…
Bill Barnes
Most
local leaders have worked through the optimistic “doing more with less”
phase. Now, many are figuring out how to do less with less.
They are…
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David
Brooks, the New York Times columnist and PBS political pundit, is often
right, usually on the Right, and always thoughtful and charmingly
earnest. This time,…
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The mess in the U.S. economy is not an ordinary one. So, figuring out what is to be done is not ordinary either.
…
Bill Barnes
Aerotropolis spins out the
consequences of that prophecy. Urban areas will re-orient—and new cities
are even now being built—around airports because air travel is the
latest…
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“There is no Frigate like a Book to take us Lands away.”–Emily Dickinson
A flotilla of Big Think Books (BTBs) about cities has heaved into…
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Michael Pagano says that we are in a “unique time in the history of
public finance,” a time when leaders and citizens can and should broach
fundamental…
Bill Barnes
Many city officials feel they and their community have been hurt by
well-intended participatory processes gone badly awry. Once burned,
twice shy. You can imagine that…
Bill Barnes
Some
time before 64 years and four months ago, Eric Blair wrote an essay
about the misuse of words in public discussion. The essay has echoed…