Agrarian Ideas for a Developing World

Today marks the one-year anniversary of my mother’s death.   I’ve watched R. Kelly’s video of “I Wish” (in which he laments the loss of hi...

Around when I was writing a recent post on production vs. consumption cities , I also happened to be reading a short blurb about the history...

Here is an article that is five years old but still relevant.  It is about how the Chicago Public Schools have long tried to improve raciall...

On the heels of my last post on how resource export can alter urbanization and economic growth in bizarre ways, here is an article on how to...

I've often wondered about fast-growing cities today that seem not to have an underlying logic to their growth.  There have been lots of ...

Over the past few years my wife and I have read a lot of literature by Igbo authors.  When I say a lot, it's probably only four or five ...

I recently ran across this video of Billy Paul singing his signature piece, Me and Mrs. Jones.  There are a couple of things I love about ...