The idea was to erect an island of intellectual freedom where young people could probe and question and develop their own ideas before reality closed in and everybody went to work for a private equity firm.
"It was an underground thing, but then it took off."
Dance Dance Revolution is firmly entrenched as a college craze.
Obama is the former rebel, who used to hang out with friends who smoked and wore leather jackets and stayed up late discussing "neocolonialism."
Bill Richardson is the jock and former frat boy who loves to dispense silly nicknames.
In practically all the foxhole memoirs there is a common villain: standardized testing, which the authors agree has been so overemphasized that it is now an obstacle to the very education it was supposed to measure.
Martin likes to say that he is of an age now when looking at himself in the mirror in the morning is like watching a low-budget horror movie with particularly lurid special effects.
I am kind of obsessed with cross-referencing.
I’m entirely with Dawkins in condemning redneck fascists from Texas to the Taliban. But the trouble with Dawkins is that he thinks that’s what religion is.
We’re seeing the winnowing of the live-music era in America, as well as the end of belief in the album.
For a left-winger like me, the problem is that either your children out-left you or they become fascists.
Rudy comes across as one of those hall-monitor types ...
"It isn’t easy to find a tall blond Jewish girl who is interested in the environment."
She nails the central question -- of her memoir and perhaps of her life -- with an extraordinary quote from Simone Weil. "One has only the choice between God and idolatry," Weil wrote. "If one denies God ... one is worshiping some things of this world in the belief that one sees them only as such, but in fact, though unknown to oneself imagining the attributes of Divinity in them."
McKibben’s aim in "Deep Economy" is relatively modest -- to change minds, to present "a new mental model of the possible." It’s a good time to try.
If you really want to party like a rock star, it helps to be a rapper.
