Elites will always be with us. By definition, any new legislators brought in to represent the will of the people will be the new government, the new elite. In any representative democracy, a relatively small group of people does the work of running the country—and it’s very, very hard work indeed. If you don’t like the incumbents, that’s fine. But what’s dangerous is when the people defenestrate the old guard without giving much if any thought to who, or what, should replace them. | | | | | William Frankfather as 'Whitey Jackson' in "Foul Play" (1978) (Paramount Pictures) | | | | | | “Elites will always be with us. By definition, any new legislators brought in to represent the will of the people will be the new government, the new elite. In any representative democracy, a relatively small group of people does the work of running the country—and it’s very, very hard work indeed. If you don’t like the incumbents, that’s fine. But what’s dangerous is when the people defenestrate the old guard without giving much if any thought to who, or what, should replace them.”
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| | rantnrave:// Happy July 4th. Eat, rest, have fun, be safe and enjoy social and political freedoms... Disney as a Service - Why Disney is Closer than Ever to Walt’s 60 Year Old Vision: Lots of talk about business issues facing DISNEY. What do I say in response? I wish I had those issues. I'd spend less time in the psychiatrist's office. To many, Disney has become the posterchild for poor licensing decisions in the digital era. Four years ago, the company sold exclusive digital rights to nearly the entire Disney catalog through the end of the decade. As a result, critics argue, Disney can do little to adapt to the OTT and D2C era – and enabled NETFLIX to build its own digital empire. But by focusing on Disney’s inflexibilities, this narrative overlooks the nuances of the company’s digital content strategy. Not only is Disney's future bright, it's closer than ever to fulfilling WALT's own vision for the storied 'House of Mouse'... These BREXIT leaders are like children that run into a room, turn the table over, take a dump, and run out of the room. Just a bunch of amateurs so far?... Beginning to appreciate the small things. This is new for me. Quiet breakfast alone at my favorite spot in SANTA MONICA. With my laptop. Reading. It's my bliss for now. I enjoy my own company, just can't stand the silence... Beware of illusionists... FAREED ZAKARIA says: "Islamic terrorists don't just hate America or the West. They hate the modern world." Must listen: WHY THEY HATE US... Everything in LA that I can't eat... I'm an uncle and a BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN fan. My babies love music so I love this... Movie I want to see: THE INFILTRATOR... Business thoughts: 'Why?’ and ‘What If?’. GE's BETH COMSTOCK. How smart leaders build trust... Happy Birthday to AMERICA, KEN FRIEDMAN, GEOFF COTTRILL, MUNJAL SHAH, MIKE MCCUE... More great curiosities at REDEF.com. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| A London-born writer never felt he truly belonged in the places he and his family were from: India, Pakistan, Britain. In America, finally, he feels free—and at home | | |
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| November Project is more than a fitness program. It's a commitment. An identity. A cult. | | |
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| Hat tip to Howard Lindzon. You know Hancock and Washington and Franklin and Jefferson. You might even know Greene and Knox, Henry and Hale. And we know you know Hamilton, pretty tough to escape that one these days! But it is very unlikely that you know the name Haym Solomon. | | |
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| Billionaire Li Ka-Shing, Hong Kong's richest man, sits down with Bloomberg's Angie Lau for an exclusive interview. | | |
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| 'I don't like to take medications,' Hernando told me when I recommended a strong dose of ibuprofen for the pain in his thumb during an even busier day than usual in the primary care clinic where I work. I'm not his regular doctor so he tried to explain that he preferred natural treatments to manufactured pharmaceuticals. We can work with that, I thought. But then he said: 'I'd prefer not to wear a wrist brace,' a key component of treatment for his tendonitis. | | |
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| "In the course of a single conversation, I have been assured that Hillary is cunning and manipulative but also crass, clueless, and stunningly impolitic; that she is a hopelessly woolly-headed do-gooder and, at heart, a hardball litigator; that she is a base opportunist and a zealot convinced that God is on her side. | | |
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| It wasn't until I moved to the Netherlands with my 3-year-old that I learned why Dutch children are the happiest | | |
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| MANY Brexiteers built their campaign on optimism. Outside the European Union, Britain would be free to open up to the world. But what secured their victory was anger. Anger stirred up a winning turnout in the depressed, down-at-heel cities of England (see article). | | |
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| Beauty scoring apps work best when the results are absurd | | |
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| In an age when chefs are regularly compared to artists and philosophers, Magnus Nilsson is among the world’s most renowned. But is the simple act of cooking ever worthy of such veneration? | | |
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| Israel’s prime minister is fighting hard to weaken the most important moderate force in his country. Which is why he’s going to be a big problem for the next U.S. president.Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/netanyahu-prime-minister-obama-president-foreign-policy-us-israel-israeli-relations-middle-east-iran-defense-forces-idf-214004#ixzz4DMWO9bsg Follow us: @politico on Twitter | Politico on Facebook | | |
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| Recently there's been a surge of interest in applying blockchain models to issues in digital culture. But every upsurging technology - particularly those which are seductively elegant - produce inherent conflicts. There are potentially tremendous social costs to blockchain, and we need to consider them carefully. At a basic level, blockchain's taking is the loss of ambiguity. | | |
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| Take a look at a book about console gaming's earliest days In October, Dynamite Entertainment will release "The Art of Atari," a 350-page illustrated coffee table book that celebrates the packaging and games that were part and parcel of the late-1970s and early-1980s era of console gaming. | | |
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| In a game with many forms of foul play, the dive now inspires a particular moralistic outrage. | | |
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| Each week, The MBW Review gives our take on some of the biggest recent news stories. This time, things are hotting up between digital music's two biggest rivals. The MBW Review is supported by FUGA. "You discovered a premium feature! You must have a Premium subscription to unlock it." | | |
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| In between interviewing Britney Spears and judging Spring Break wet T-shirt contests, former VJ Dave Holmes struggled with being openly gay on-air. Now he’s dishing about it all. | | |
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| New Japan Pro Wrestling has been Japan's leading pro wrestling company for over 40 years, but its overseas reach has been limited until recently. Now, the promotion is selling out massive shows in NYC and elevating the art to a new level of intensity. | | |
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| The man behind Google Home. | | |
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| You would be hard pressed to read the news and not know that fintech is seemingly at a crossroads -- from Lending Club's CEO resigning to reports of other peer-to-peer lending platforms reducing their workforce to headlines that state that, after a boom in funding, venture capitalists are looking to other sectors out of fear. | | |
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| In a company driven by engineers and run by algorithms and metrics, Amazon’s small group of book editors is an anomaly of sorts. But through the Amazon Book Review and other methods, it’s trying to build Amazon’s presence and influence in the world of literary culture. | | |
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