Some uses of the electronic media could enrich politics. Most recent proposals, however, are video games at best and Bonapartism at worst.
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Investing on the Frontier: How the U.S. Can Reclaim High-Tech Leadership
Why we need a civilian technology policy.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Memo on Presidential Transition
A presidential scholar’s still–timely confidential transition memo to candidate John Kennedy, dated September 15, 1960.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Conversion to Competitiveness: Making the Most of the National Labs
If they didn’t exist, we’d have to build them.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Divided They Govern
Divided government isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Passion, Memory, and Politics, 1992
F rom its founding nearly three years ago, The American Prospect has sought to help reconstruct a plausible and persuasive liberalism. This issue’s cluster of articles concerned with a public investment strategy for economic growth exemplifies that purpose: substantive, detailed thinking about how to solve the nation’s problems, rather than symbolic gestures. Yet, as this […]
Posted inAmerica and the World
Conversion Then and Now
Turning swords into plowshares requires a plan.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Pork Barrel Objection
It’s a problem, but there are ways to minimize it.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Shopping for Innovation: Government as Smart Consumer
The way the government buys can push industry ahead.
