Real Renewal – Creating a post-boomer Liberal Party
Taylor Owen and I published an op-ed entitled “Real Renewal” in today’s Toronto Star. You can comment on the piece here. —- OPINION How about real Liberal renewal? Nov 20, 2008 04:30 AM David Eaves...
View ArticleEmerging Neo-Progressive Issues: Drug Policy
As many of you know Taylor and I wrote a piece on what we termed neo-progressivism in last September’s Literary Review of Canada. Since then we’ve keep our eye out for other discussions where we think...
View ArticleNeo-Progressivism watch: online collectivism as the 3rd way that works
Just finished reading Kevin Kelly’s piece The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online in Wired Magazine. It talks about the same themes Taylor and I were trying to surface...
View ArticleNeo-Progressive update: Fighting Corruption
Those who read my blog know that I’ve always been an enormous fan of Lawrence Lessig. On numerous occasions I’ve pointed people to his most amazing talk on copyright. Indeed when Beltzner finally got...
View ArticleThe Generation M Manifesto (Re-mixed v.1)
I’ve always been a big Umair fan and think you should to. He writes about everything Taylor and I were getting at in our piece about The Death of Progressive Politics and the need for a neo-progressive...
View ArticleThe Neo-Progressive Manifesto Prelude (or why Generation M must be remixed)
On Wednesday Umair Haque’s posted a Manifesto for Generation M. The post has received some praise and some serious criticism. I’d be lying if I said the post didn’t resonate with me on certain level –...
View ArticleA Neo-Progressive Manifesto
This piece builds on my thoughts regarding Umair Haque’s Generation M Manifesto. Dear conservatives on the Left and Right – and those beholden to them. We would like to break up with you. Every day, we...
View ArticleNeo-Progressive Alert: The NDP as risk-averse conservatives
As some of my readers know, I’m always interested in articles that highlight how all the political parties in Canada (and the US?) have become conservative. Not necessarily in the sense that they want...
View ArticleTorStar Op-ed: Liberals have to create a next political centre
This past Saturday the Toronto Star published the following piece by Taylor Owen and myself on its op-ed page. Thought I’d put it here for those who might have missed it. Liberals have to create a new...
View ArticleBrain Candy – Great Quotes from Yesterday
I’m in San Francisco to co-chair the Code for America Summit this week, so lots going on, and some deep blog posts in the works. But first. Fun! Here are some of my favourite quotes I stumbled upon or...
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