David Brewster Important column by Danny Westneat, and encouraging that an ex-Microsoftie has set up a watchdog website for Seattle City Council,www.sccinsight.com. My take on the liberal monoculture at City Hall is that district elections now mean councilmembers can oblige some generous interest gr[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Commentary by David Brewster’
October 6th, 2016 - 9:38 pm § in Misc.
Our Nonfunctional City Council 2
October 5th, 2016 - 12:37 pm § in Misc.
David Brewster: The Great Rebellion
David Brewster Joel Kotkin reflects on what he calls The Great Rebellion sweeping the West, analysing its five main battlefronts and generally applauding the end of the neo-liberal crony-capitalism politics of the past 40 years. He writes: “What holds the rebels together is a single idea: the [...]
October 3rd, 2016 - 11:25 am § in The Ave Scene
Cascadia: The New Tech Corridor
David Brewster Led by Microsoft and Madrona Investment Group, there’s revived interest in a Vancouver-Seattle technology corridor. Partly this is driven by Microsoft’s interest in hiring foreign workers, who have an easier time gaining residence in Canada than in U.S. Partly it is B.C.&[...]
September 29th, 2016 - 10:34 am § in Misc.
It is Not Oil that makes Democratic States Richer
Two political scientists, Paul Pierson and Jacob Hacker, argue that the path to prosperity lies through blue states, which invest in education, infrastructure and human services, rather than red states, which cut taxes and rely on extractive industry. The charts are interesting, particularly the one[...]
September 7th, 2016 - 1:49 am § in Misc.
Is Hillary FDR?
David Brewster This is a fascinating article about the growing influence of the impatient Progressive Left on the Democrats and on Hillary’s politics. The focus is on the central role of the Roosevelt Institute’s Felicia Joy Wong and economist Joseph Stiglitz. Seattle will play a big rol[...]
August 23rd, 2016 - 10:10 am § in The Ave Scene
David Brewster: The Corporate Industrial Foundation Axi
David Brewster NYTimes does an expose of the Brookings Institution, showing how corporate donations result in brand-building favors. Disturbing (and long) article. Seattle has connections with some of the programs mentioned in the story, with mentions of Boeing, Microsoft, Vulcan, and Hitachi. The M[...]
David Brewster: The Putin connection with American Politics
David Brewster An interesting essay on the Putin connection with American politics and how it foretells a new age of influencing political outcomes in other countries. The author writes: “The signature Russian intelligence operation of the future, and indeed of the present, is not going to unf[...]
July 21st, 2016 - 9:32 am § in Misc.
Want a calm, dispassionate, academic insight into the presidential race?
David Brewster How about some calm, dispassionate, academic insight into the presidential race? Here’s the take from Congress-scholar David Mayhew on Trump’s many predecessors, key races, and the subtle point that the real contest is 2018 when the president in office loses a lot of seats[...]
In the STEM era, do they really still teach Latin?
David Brewster One part of university humanities that is not declining, including at UW, is classics. The likely reason is all the attention classics profs pay to high school teachers, producing a trickle-up pattern for the humanities. Most other humanities departments look down their noses at high [...]
BREWSTER: Road to Prestinge: SHRINK the College