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The Loss of Democracy in America
Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please become a paid subscriber. For many years, I thought with all the patriotic bluster of…
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Back on the Missouri
In April, after wintering in the middle of North Dakota, right before the river turns and heads due west, the intrepid Lewis and Clark expedition headed…
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Heisenberg Agonistes: Progress
Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please become a paid subscriber. Long ago, I quit reading philosophy – credit or blame…
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A Funny Story About Fossil Fuels, Economics, and Politics
Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please become a paid subscriber. Back long ago, when I was doing energy work, I worked with…
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R.I.P Labor
Link Wray, Shawnee American, creator of one of rock and roll’s great sounds, one of the coolest cats to ever prowl a stage. What we consider labor, and…
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August 2023
Land Reform
The journals of Lewis and Clark regale with one of the great tales of American history. As with all American history, it’s filled with contradictions…
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Give the People What They Want
Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please become a paid subscriber. I don't talk much these days about what passes for politics…
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Mother Sinead
Death has a way of focusing the mind, especially if it’s someone who for no good reason slipped long ago from your conscious. The last couple weeks…
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Wiener & Shannon: Toward a Politics of Information (III)
Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please become a paid subscriber. (Continued from II) Wiener correctly foresaw information…
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Wiener, Shannon, & the Politics of Information (II)
Thank you for reading Life in the 21st Century. Please share this post. (Continued from I) Wiener sets our contemporary technological revolution in an…
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Wiener & Shannon: Toward a Politics of Information (I)
A couple decades ago, the term Information Age was bandied about to define our new technological era, not so much anymore. Maybe, unlikely as it…
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The More Things Change
Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please become a paid subscriber. What's amusing, you need a good stomach, is in the last…
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