Psychohistory

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Talking With Krugman: He's Anti-Austerity, Pro-Peter Gabriel, And "Not That Cosmic"

15 May 2012

Everybody knows that Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize-winning economist, a sometimes combative columnist and a liberal lion. But in a conversation which aired this...

William Bradley: Nuclear's Once Bright and Shiny Future Blinks Out

12 May 2012

Where, outside of Iran, will new nuclear power plants be contemplated? Wherever that may be, it looks to be increasingly few and far between.

Too much or too little?

5 May 2012

Moment’s pause for thought: 3 million books a year in 2011, millions of articles, millions of hours of television and video and audio, billions of emails and tweets (the US Library of Congress is now saving every public tweet), trillions of social media updates. Corporations are hard at work building electronic archives of human intellectual output. The habit can only spread.