New York Magazine has a feature by Roseanne Barr as she talks about the upside and downside of fame During the recent and overly publicized breakdown of Charlie Sheen, I was repeatedly contacted by the media and asked to comment, as it was assumed that I know a thing or two about starring on a [...]
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Skinhead Culture in Russia
From the Financial Times There are many gangs who hang out in the high-rise, low-income flats built in the 1960s and 1970s on the outskirts of most Russian cities. It is a world of drugs and warring subcultures of youths, and at the top of that grim heap are the skinheads, the kings of ultra-violence, [...]
Income Inequality: Too Big to Ignore
How big of a problem is income inequality? According to Robert H. Frank, economics professor at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University it is a growing problem. The rich have been spending more simply because they have so much extra money. Their spending shifts the frame of reference that shapes the demands [...]
The end of multi-culturalism?
I was quite discouraged to read these comments by German chancellor Angela Merkel. Mrs Merkel told a gathering of younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party on Saturday that at "the beginning of the 60s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country… [...]
The Grind of Poverty
"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings." Nelson Mandela This is the third in a series on poverty, homelessness, and a concentration of services in Saskatoon’s inner city. You can find part 1 and part 2 in the [...]
