New Gilded Age was Re: FBI helps Czech cops silence dissent

2000-09-29 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
JD speaking of which, I've noticed that the media make a lot of comparisons between the last 20 years or so and the US "gilded age" of the late 19th and very early 20th centuries. I think there's a lot of validity to these comparisons (though no analogy is perfect). In the last gilded age, the US

Re: Re: FBI helps Czech cops silence dissent

2000-09-29 Thread Joel Blau
If the correct analogy is to the Gilded Age, then isn't the obvious political problem how to ensure that the coming version of the "Progressive Era" does more than merely rationalize the marketplace? Joel Blau Jim Devine wrote: At 10:17 AM 9/29/00 -0400, you wrote: Keeping an eye on