HUM SOC ST Steven Welzer The truth is that the pace of change is quite slow Aside from proclamations, not all that much will come of the COP26 conference. Aside from exaggerations, not all so much will change in the…
AI ST Steven Welzer What’s the buzz … tell me what’s a-happening The buzz this week is that A.I. and the forsythia are in bloom.
GEN SOC ST Steven Welzer what a difference two months can make Things were looking so good for Netanyahu two months ago that he was considering calling early elections. The Iran war had 90% favorability…
HUM ST Steven Welzer Interview with a Luddite In 1995 I attended a conference, “Technology and Its Discontents,” at New York’s Learning Alliance on Lafayette Street. I was there on…
SOC ST Steven Welzer military power and commercial power went hand-in-hand 1450: ocean navigation 1500: opening of the Americas 1520: first circumnavigation 1600: colonies, bases, trading posts worldwide 1700: the…
HUM SOC ST Steven Welzer thoughts in regard to the “Meathead” / Archie Bunker dichotomy it harks back to a conception of America … over about ten generations (circa 1700–1950)
TCH SOC ST Steven Welzer it’s been quite a year for ecosocialist activists I was a charter member of DSA back in 1982: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/nyregion/mamdani-speech-transcript.html
ST Steven Welzer the Left is all too human just like the Right and the Center 5/20/2024 Briahna Joy Gray and Ajamu Baraka lamenting that The Left hasn’t been able to Be Serious enough to get together and get behind a…
LIF SCI SOC ST Steven Welzer what’s the problem with the nuclear family? The modern Leviathan is cold, impersonal, institutional, faux-democratic, alienating, unmanageably complex, ephemeral, bureaucratic…
LIF ST Steven Welzer peak oil … if only Ten years ago there was a phenomenon called “Peak Oil.” It was the idea that we faced an imminent problem: petroleum reserves would soon…
ST Steven Welzer Jeffersonians didn’t stand a chance Hamilton had in mind a rising Great Power. At first Jefferson resisted that idea. He had a vision of living simply and locally…