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...it’s from a song called “Teenage Riot,” by a band called Sonic Youth.It seems to follow that we—that is me, you, and everyone we know—are keyed into this cultural endemism in large part because people??a lot of people??bothered to make art about it.For three months this summer I lived and worked at a television station in China, and to say the least, things are different over there. Having spent the vast majority of my three months in Shanghai...
...candidates were speaking at a conference organized by ServiceNation, an organization that seeks to expand the role of national service in people??s lives. The timing of the event—exactly seven years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001—was strategic as well as symbolic. Those events inspired many Americans to volunteer, whether as members of the armed services, the search and rescue teams at the disaster sites, or just in their own communities. The overwhelming surge of solidarity and self-sacrifice that followed the tragedy was channeled into an outpouring of service...
...Perhaps the most important issue is that this idea of service is inherently nationalistic. What its advocates desire is not service for its own sake, but service as a way to strengthen people??s ties to their government. Rick Stengel, the managing editor of Time magazine, lamented in an article last year in Time that volunteer rates are higher than they have ever been. Why is this a problem? Because it accompanies record low confidence in democracy and the American government. His concern is that “[p]eople see volunteering not as a form of public...
...horrible. But at some point, we, as great lovers of sport, are going to have to get with the program. Put simply, we’re missing out on the greatest party in the world.I had never experienced something like that celebration in Cairo. I was lifted up on people??s shoulders, given flags to raise and wave in the air, danced with people like they were family. All because of one stupid sport that nobody really likes.I jumped in the back of a truck and road along a main city block bordering the Nile, waving my hands...
...Last month, she signed plans to build a $26 billion natural gas pipeline, which she spent months negotiating. On the stump, she advocates drilling for oil in the Alaska Northern Wildlife Refuge, which most Americans favor. The McCain-Palin platform is calling for lower energy prices, and talking about people??s pocketbooks, not their Bibles...