Daily Archives: January 17, 2013

When New York Magazine reported that the columnist David Brooks was to teach a course at Yale entitled “Humility,” someone may as well have lit a beacon, like a snark-signal hovering high over Internet City. Blogs blogged, tweets tweeted, and tumblrs tumbled. Matt Taibbi, channeling his characteristic clarified rage, called […]

You can comment in-line on this post by clicking the readrboard icon at the end of each paragraph, or using the dashboard above. Critics of civic crowdfunding sometimes suggest it subverts government and civil society, and risks replacing existing institutions with an ecosystem of community pressure groups – among whom […]