Governing for the Common Good
Charlottesville city councilor Kathy Galvin on the challenges of city governance
Back to the City! Back to the Country!
Posted on January 14, 2015
in THR Web Features
Image: Las Vegas suburbs at sunset; Wikimedia Commons.
One of the most salient features of the post–World War II suburb was its localization of the American middle class and its propagation of practices of mass consumption.
Governing for the Common Good
The Thin Reed of Humanism
It's at the margins of our established ways of engaging our world and ourselves that new ways of seeing and imagining what it is to be human so often emerge.
The Public and Private, Once Again
Posted on January 29, 2015
in Infernal Machine
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Encryption offers a false substitute for real solutions—something that is the moral equivalent of vigilante force when what we need is better government and law.
Art for Data’s Sake
Posted on January 5, 2015
in THR Web Features
Image: Estimote beacon via SlashGear.
To reduce a museum experience to the laws of supply and demand devalues not only the art itself but also the curators’ years of education and expertise—connoisseurship on which we rely in institutions that position themselves as cultural arbiters.
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