Is a 21 Hour Work Week the New Normal?

By Michael Coren | FAST Company 

 Michael Coren covers science, economics and the environment. He is the cofounder of the multimedia production studio + newsroom MajorPlanet Studios.

To save the world — or really to even just make our personal lives better — we will need to work less. Continue reading

Germany and the two World Wars

Does it make sense to regard the Second World War in Europe as a continuation of the First?

It seems to be a foregone conclusion in the eyes of many – if not most – historians that the rise of the Nazi Party was a direct consequence of and reaction to Germany’s defeat in 1918.  Continue reading

Appointment in Aleppo…a Middle Eastern-style fable

In Old Damascus there was a servant, Rashid, who had faithfully served his employer since before just about anyone  in that storied city could remember.

One day,  in the mounting heat of a May morning, he returned early from his daily rounds in the Great Bazaar, stumbling into the palatial kitchen of the great house in a state that bordered on panic. Prince Hakim, as famed for his kindness as for his wealth, was greatly disturbed to see his trusted assistant so upset. Continue reading

What’s New in Printing

Are you in the printing business?

Then you know that it is changing while we speak!

I started out selling business cards and stationery out of a catalog in 1982. Before I’d ever heard of a “bleed” or “camera-ready” artwork, I was told by the print broker who had just hired me to sell printing on a commission basis to get out there and get that all-important first order. Continue reading

On Anarchists and Tassle Loafers

By TIMOTHY EGAN

Timothy Egan worked for The Times for 18 years – as Pacific Northwest correspondent and a national enterprise reporter. His column on American politics and life as seen from the West Coast appears here on Fridays. In 2001, he was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that wrote the series “How Race Is Lived in America.” He is the author of several books, including “The Worst Hard Time,” a history of the Dust Bowl, for which he won the National Book Award, and most recently, “The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America.”Anarchists and Tasseled Loafers. His Amazon page is:

http://www.amazon.com/Timothy-Egan/e/B000APEFME/ref=sr_tc_ep?qid=1329938330

Timothy Egan on American politics and life, as seen from the West.

Amid shattered glass and the black smoke of urban pyres, I found myself in a riot some years ago — the anarchists-led assault on the World Trade Organization meetings of 1999. Continue reading