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“Dynamic” can describe even the calmest-looking streets. As an almost arbitrary example, take 42^nd Avenue in Minneapolis, south from Lake to 42^nd Street. It’s loaded with past, present and future food-shopping spots, which in 1930 alone (again, arbitrary) numbered twenty: bakeries, meat markets, grocers, dry goods.

One would be hard-pressed not to see the enormous fetishizing of the U.S. Military since the attacks of 9/11/01. Whether it is at professional sports events, airports, political rallies, or even at local restaurants, it seems almost impossible to avoid signs, speeches, discounts for, symbols, or outright worship of those now labeled “heroes” – the backbone of our national identity – our warriors.

For as much as I criticize various education reform MORE »

You guys. This book. Is adorable.

There’s no doubt that income inequality is finally getting the attention it deserves. President Barack Obama assailed it in his second inaugural address saying we can’t succeed “When a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.” Ben Bernanke decried inequality for “creating two societies.” Pope Francis famously tweeted his opinion. Even Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein called for “some redistribution” to create a stable and just society. But for all the talk, not much is happening. Why is that?