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Archive for December, 2011
December 31st, 2011
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy
Edward Hopper’s paintings have a special emotional resonance for me. They capture moods and people and scenes that remind of the time in my life when I lived in a declining industrial city in the Midwest. I worked on a night shift, and with my body clock flipped from almost everyone else’s, I was awake [...]
December 31st, 2011
Category: Campaign 2012, Watching Conservatives
They see what we see: a party increasingly dominated by cranks and by cranky ideas.
December 31st, 2011
Category: 501(c)(3), charity, Good news, Higher education, Human rights, Law Notes, Management, Music, NonProfits, Organizing, Philanthropy, Religion and Politics, Think Tanks, Uncategorized
Good Counsel: Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits by Lesley Rosenthal (John Wiley & Sons 2012) As I embarked on writing Good Counsel: Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits, well-meaning and concerned folks cited at least three reasons why no one had written such a book before, and (implicitly) why I shouldn’t try: it’s too [...]
December 30th, 2011
Category: Policy Analysis
Tom Garwin’s insight: It’s not a strategy unless it tells you what NOT to do.
December 30th, 2011
Category: Film
As the holiday season is still upon us, let me follow up last week’s recommendation of A Christmas Story with Kenneth Branagh’s 1992 film Peter’s Friends. Sometimes glibly dismissed as a “British knockoff of The Big Chill” it is in fact superior in most respects to that film (which not incidentally was itself based on [...]
December 30th, 2011
Big Bird, we need you to resolve the cultural contradictions of our capitalist society.
December 30th, 2011
Category: Drug Policy, Health and Medicine
Tri-Care, DOD’s health insurance program, has historically refused to cover opiate substitution therapy (e.g., buprenorphine, methadone) for military personnel and family members who are addicted to pain killers and/or heroin. Harold Pollack and I wrote about this at length in American Prospect earlier this year, noting in particular that these life saving therapies not being [...]