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...Hilton sense of the word), that it’s uneven, and that it’s empty. Friedman’s argument is ice cold because his call-to-arms is rather unoriginal, as is the way he argues it. His thesis is something we’ve heard many times before: “everybody, in time, is going to be forced to pay the true cost of the energy they are using, the true cost of the climate change they are causing, the true cost of the biodiversity loss they are triggering, the true cost...
...philosophical idealism that followed the industrial and mechanical innovations of the early 19th century. Throughout this historical investigation, Stoll weaves—or, rather, interjects—a stilted biography of John Adolphus Etzler, the titular “Mad Inventor” (who you’ve never heard of because he never invented anything that actually worked). Etzler’s life and energies were spent striving to harness the earth’s natural forces—wind, current, sun, rotation—believing that if he did so he’d be able to create...
...forced to liquidate. Tenants must be out within days. They have been told they will not be getting their deposits back. Kamoshida can't get over the feeling of being utterly blindsided. "I had no idea that Lehman Brothers had anything to do with it," he says. "When I heard that Lehman collapsed, I thought that it was somebody else's problem in a faraway place. But in the end I had everything to worry about, didn...
...push helicopter parents away entirely," says Angela Cottrell, associate director of residential education. Even undergrad residential advisers like sophomore Deno Saclarides do some parental hand-holding. After a call from the mother of one of his freshman advisees, Saclarides says, "I wrote on his door, 'Sweetie, I haven't heard from you in a while. Call...
...Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, for advice on how to cope with the financial implosion of 1929, Mellon replied, "Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system." Echoes of that old-time sentiment can still be heard today, but they are mere vestiges of the stifling tyranny of laissez-faire thinking that paralyzed so many governments in an earlier...