Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: The lessons of Prohibition

Katharine Moody

Thu, 30 Mar 2017 21:30:39 +1300

I notice my relatives in the US who supported Trump in the election run up with lots of Trump/Republican rah, rah Facebook posts are eerily silent on politics now. It's not a case of winners remorse – rather it's just – silence. And that's what makes it eerie.

Rich of Observationz

Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:25:22 +1300

The French got out of that (to some degree) by:
– modernising rapidly. Rural France in 1950 was like a developing country – the change from that to today's autoroutes, hypermarches and nuclear power stations was one of the most abrupt in Europe.
– constructing a political system (the Fifth…

Carol Stewart

Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:11:11 +1300

It sounds like a fascinating documentary, thanks for bringing it to our attention.

It's the part of the Prohibition struggle that pitted the rural America against the thriving cities, conservatism against liberalism and modernity.
I believe there's a word for that – Poujadism.

This is the excellent writer Jonathan Raban…

Rich of Observationz

Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:29:18 +1300

"according to science"

What is that site, anyway? It's looks like the kind of place one might pick up malware...

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:27:33 +1300

But probity will win in the end, right?

nzlemming

Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:02:57 +1300

Going by his previous predictions, Johan Galtung is predicting that America could be in for a Soviet-grade downfall.

The further they let Trump go, the worse it's going to be.
#MakeAmericaAGreatBigCraterAgain

Kumara Republic

Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:35:13 +1300

The vandals are sacking Rome.

Only this time, the vandals are from within Rome's fortifications – and that includes the North American Maginot Line, oops, Mexican Border Wall proposal.

Going by his previous predictions, Johan Galtung is predicting that America could be in for a Soviet-grade downfall.

Russell Brown

Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:41:35 +1300

The vandals are sacking Rome.

It seems that way.

Shaun Lott

Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:16:34 +1300

A danger of the present political barbarism may yet be that it prevents Americans from learning from their own history.

One of many. Their budget proposal is truly astonishing – they seem to really want to pull the plug on Government support for the generation and propagation of knowledge across…

Public Address

Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:16:34 +1300

Discussion from blog post.