Matt Taibi on the Tea Party

Taibi did a Rolling Stone article on the Tea Party back in 2010 when Rand Paul was running for Senate (successfully, as it turned out - yikes!) that is a real eye-opener. Even though I'm pretty sure I read it in 2010, too...

The Tea Party is a pretty fascinating phenomenon, actually. It's really highlighting Middle America's fear of the future.

Ten key ideas of economics

What it says on the tin.

Generations in America

I seem to have bookmarked this study of American generations a while back, and recently found it again prowling through old bookmarks.  The key concept is that each generation raises its children in reaction to the way they themselves were raised, and that we can therefore see roughly an eighty-year cycle in American history (but you can see the same sorts of patterns in other countries, of course).

Pretty excellent stuff.

Christian Dominionism

Cool - Ted Cruz and the government shutdown have a shudder-inducing theological explanation behind them. Huffington Post weighs in.