Author Archive

Ross Perlin: Of Apprentices and Interns Before the rise of the internship, the apprenticeship once offered a humane, professional model for training and beginning a career.; Ten Megacities of the Near Future The projected megacities of the future are growing at an alarming rate, many of them in the world most conflicted regions.; China’s Instant Cities, Thirty Years On When China began aggressive economic and urban development in the 1980s, the character of its cities changed forever.; Nero’s Fiddle, Gaddafi’s Fiction Jimmy Carter was described by Harold Bloom as “literally the worst poet in the United States.” Why are politicians always trying to make art?; Riding the Godless Express The Soviet anti-religious movement revealed it was easier to attack God than successfully install atheism as a state religion.