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Emerging Issues: Mr. Murray and the Decay of American Virtue: Inequality III

Emerging Issues: Mr. Murray and the Decay of American Virtue: Inequality III


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…

Emerging Issues: Jeremiads on Class and the Nation’s Future: Inequality II

Emerging Issues: Jeremiads on Class and the Nation’s Future: Inequality II


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…

Emerging Issues: Some People are More Equal than Others



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…

Doing Less with Less, and Beyond


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…

Emerging Issues: To Act or Not to Act? Is That the Question for Government?


Bill Barnes

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,…

It’s the Economy Stupid!



Bill Barnes

The mess in the U.S. economy is not an ordinary one. So, figuring out what is to be done is not ordinary either.

Big Think Books, Part Two: Cities and Destiny


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…

Big Think Books See Big Roles for Cities in Big Global Changes, Part 1


Bill Barnes

“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…

A Unique Time in Public Finance: Not for Hunkering Down


Bill Barnes

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…

Are We Ready for Government by the People?


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…

We Don’t Know What We’re Talking About


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…

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