Technopolis

  I recently did a radio interview with author/teacher/activist Charlene Sprenak on the Progressive Radio Network.  We talked about tech...

                                                      Still shrouded in mystery Unanswered questions about Benghazi: 1.   ...

                                                                The Smart Cup   Although little noticed in the trade papers, this gadget...

My top ten predictions for 2014 1.  The success of Republican obstructionism in prolonging the Great Recession will produce a voter bac...

    Here are some excerpts from a new book by Jeffrey R. Young, Beyond the MOOC Hype ,  an excellent, brief discussion of a variety o...

                    Proponents of Swiss guaranteed income initiative dump a truck load of money                     in front of the parl...

Where are we?  Who are we with?  And what are we doing?  What's that over there?  Who knows?  Who cares? Gray Brechin sent me the o...

                                         Harvesting garlic at Roxbury Farm, Kinderhook, NY   In the region of New York where I live, the...

[With this post I'll begin a series of shorter comments about recent events, longer than the truncated observations I offer on Twitter o...

A Big Hug for Paco By:  Langdon Winner "It's a very fine essay," he said, "and I agree with most of it.  But ...

Remembering Michael Black By: Langdon Winner On my way to a conference in San Francisco last month I learned that Michae...

This wonderful new machine, shown in prototype here, comes from the web page of Cesarea Treehugger of Duluth, Minnesota.  It provide...

                                   Brian Williams, Greil Marcus and Langdon Winner (at the piano)                                      ...

I'm proposing a series of historical lectures to be delivered at West Point on the theme: Great U.S. Military Victories of the Past H...

In Defense of Heckling by:  Langdon Winner   The noisy appearance of several activists from CODEPINK at last week's Senat...