If you wish you could watch nothing but commercials during your few hours of free time per day but are constantly bombarded by original, thoughtful content on network television, Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars is the perfect program for you. This new “competition” show on Fox is a parade of nauseating Read more…
The New York Times published an article recently that described the rapid and opaque takeover of rental properties in Brooklyn by private equity firms. While the exorbitant apartment prices in NYC naturally make the city a focal point for this problem, the same real estate acquisition crisis seems to be Read more…
In the late 19th century, child abandonment was such a common problem in American cities that many of the country’s noteworthy orphanages were constructed and opened, including the New York Foundling Hospital and the Holy Family Institute. About a hundred years later, the abandoning of children was much less common, Read more…
After 9/11, the United States took drastic measures to prevent another terrorist attack, or at least make gestures towards this end. We started two wars, completely changed airport security, and drastically expanded the surveillance state. Yet, carnage at the scale of 9/11 occurs on roads month after month in the Read more…