Late one March night in 1984, the Baltimore Colts facility in Reisterstown was emptied out, the team’s equipment loaded onto Mayflower moving trucks, and the team relocated to Indianapolis. The following day, local columnist Michael Olesker wrote the following, under the title, “Loyalty is Nothing:” Something precious and irreplaceable has died, not just a football [...]
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The Provincial and The Cosmopolitan
Posted in Cities, Communitarianism, Libertarianism, Politics, tagged Arizona, Baltimore, Bob Irsay, Colts, cosmopolitan, Jonathan Chait, liberal democrats, Mark Penn, Michael Olesker, Nick Clegg, provincial, UK election on May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Labels
Posted in Communitarianism, Majoritarianism, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged communitarian, conservative, left-wing, liberal, majoritarian, Noah Millman, Progressive, reactionary, right-wing, The American Scene on May 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, American Scene blogger Noah Millman, offered up his “new definitions” of political ideology made up of a triad of choices: liberal vs. conservative, left-wing vs. right-wing, and progressive vs. reactionary. He described the differences as follows:
A clustered world
Posted in Cities, Communitarianism, Culture/Trends, History, Politics, tagged communitarianism, FDR, Latitudes and Attitudes, Michael Weiss, Richard Florida, Rise of the Creative Class, Roger and Me, rural electrification, tea party, The Clustered World, waking ned devine on March 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
About a decade ago, I found a book in my college library called “Latitudes and Attitudes” that gave demographic and marketing information for every market in the nation. It had nothing to do with anything I was studying, but I became obsessed with it. I loved learning that places had character; that their individual tastes [...]
Top Ten Communitarian Movies
Posted in Communitarianism, Media, Politics, Populism, tagged all the right moves, communitarianism, crash, doc hollywood, grand canyon, Groundhog Day, in and out, in the heights, It's a Wonderful Life, last hurrah, moonstruck, movies, phenomenon, populism, rudy, sweet home alabama, the truman show, waking ned devine, witness on March 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Over a year ago, I wrote a post on the Top Ten Populist movies (as a response to a number of sites I’d come across that listed libertarian films). That post has steadily become one of the most read posts on this blog. Since I love movies, I wanted to post a sort of sequel: [...]
Conformity
Posted in Communitarianism, Culture/Trends, History, Libertarianism, Majoritarianism, Politics, tagged communitarianism, conformity, James Meredith, majoritarianism, Rosa Parks, unions on December 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
About a year ago, I wrote a post in which I mentioned that society had started to over-vilify conformity. It was just a side point in an argument about majoritarianism/communitarianism, but I’ve been giving it a bit more thought lately, and it’s kind of been a recurring theme in several of my recent posts, whether [...]
Generations, choices, and duties
Posted in Communitarianism, Culture/Trends, tagged 1920s, 1930s, 1960s, choice, Christopher Caldwell, community service, duty, Gen X, generations, George Bailey, military, national service, paradox of choice, sacrifice on July 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For a bunch of reasons I won’t go into here, I’ve been thinking lately about a book review I read several years ago (technically a book review… barely mentions the book). The review was by Christopher Caldwell, of all people, and it responded to the book The Paradox of Choice. The book itself argued that [...]
Rowhouse land
Posted in Cities, Communitarianism, Culture/Trends, tagged beer, generation, gentrification, hipster, introversion, rowhouse, self-esteem, small talk, yupster on July 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I live in rowhouse land. A city block in an old part of an old city – mostly gentrified and made hip in the early part of the decade, but with enough longtime residents, shops, and local customs to have kept some measure of authenticity. I’m part of the gentrification boom. I’m under 30, from [...]
Frank Capra’s America
Posted in Communitarianism, Culture/Trends, Media, Patriotism, Politics, Top, tagged Depression, FDR, Frank Capra, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, Jon Stewart, Kevin Williamson, Michael Kazin, New Deal, patriotism, Scream, Stephen Colbert on February 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the mid-90s, a mini-comeback of slasher films was ignited when Kevin Williamson wrote the screenplay for Scream. Rather than taking credit for reviving the genre, Williamson always insisted that he had actually driven the final nail in the coffin by exposing all of its tricks. See, we were the Blockbuster Generation, too savvy to [...]
