by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 22, 2011
Inside Job is the story of a crime without punishment, an outrage that has mostly escaped legal sanction and social stigma. While Inside Job can feel at times like the best sort of university lecture, it finds filmmaker Charles Ferguson summoning the moral force...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 15, 2011
Why do people in the financial sector earn 100 times more than the average neurosurgeon? How is it possible that in 2009 the top 10 bankers earned an average of $900,000 an hour and the top 25 bankers earned as much as 658,000 entry-level teachers — put...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 11, 2011
OK, it was my first time. I was sucked in by the ecstatic repeat attendees, the flow of exceptional online videos, and the opportunity to reach out to the rich and famous. What struck me right upon arrival at this year’s TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 10, 2011
This weekend, I watched a ’60 Minutes’ show that took me inside the lives of homeless kids in Central Florida. The Congressional Budget Office projects that the child-poverty rate will soon hit 25 percent. By the end of the segment, I felt sad and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 22, 2011
The courage of the Egyptian people has not only inspired others in the Middle East to demand a transition to democracy, it has also inspired Americans to insist on democracy – here in America. In an electoral system controlled by business, trade associations and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 22, 2011
Chris Hedges is a unique commentator on the challenges we face. His honesty is exceptional, his writing outstanding, and his perspective insistent. His two most recent books, Death of the Liberal Class and Empire of Illusion painfully brought into focus the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 17, 2011
Brene Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past ten years studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. She spent the first five years of her decade-long study focusing on shame and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 16, 2011
Out this week is the newest edition of Whole Terrain, which is published by the Environmental Studies Department of Antioch University, New England. The entire issue focuses on the question of “scale.” While the phrase “think globally, act locally” may...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 15, 2011
Repercussions of the New Tax Law Would Leave 51 Million Americans Worse Off Most liberals and progressive Democrats were angered by the recent extension of the Bush tax cuts for America’s most wealthy. The excuse, offered by the White House and a good number of...
