Living in New York, as everybody knows, is expensive. But when it comes to educating the kids, no price is too high for NYC’s thriving but insecure and success-obsessed yuppie class. The New York Times reports that the price of private schools in the city has risen by nearly 50 percent in the past ten […]

Today Via Meadia has reached a new frontier: I’ve signed up for Delta’s in-flight internet service and am blogging from a jet between JFK and Phoenix.The service at least on this initial run, is pretty good; I’ve had slower and pricier internet in a lot of hotels. And it was blog in the air today […]

China may be the only country with a harsh “One Child” law, but it is not the only one where sex-selective abortion has caused unnaturally high numbers of male births in proportion to female ones. According to the highly respected demographer Nicholas Eberstadt, sex-selective abortion is much, much more common than thought.  Between 21 and […]

If you’re wondering how the United States could (slowly) let the air out of its higher education bubble, the Washington Post has a suggestion for you: look north. The Post piece describes an educational niche carved out by Canadian “colleges” (roughly the equivalent of America’s two-year community colleges).The chief difference between these Canadian colleges and […]

Over at Ben Smith’s new BuzzFeed Politics Bureau, McKay Coppins offers a straightforward and enlightening primer on the special Mormon undergarments that have elicited harsh, unthinking mockery from the likes of Bill Maher and Maureen Dowd. Writes Coppins: It’s true that Mormons are taught not to flaunt “garments” (as they’re called) for public view, which […]

According to Defense Secretary Panetta’s top policy aide, there’s a good chance that US forces could be heading back into Iraq sometime soon. That’s at least what the Associated Press is reporting today. The troops would not have a combat role, but would carry out training for Iraqi forces.It’s bad news that the Iraqis need […]

As city officials in one of America’s most left-wing municipal governments begged the “Occupy Oakland” movement to stop trashing the struggling, heavily minority city’s streets, public buildings and YMCA, delusional “Occupy” protesters spoke of establishment plots and evil police conspiracies.In the strange mental landscape where they dwell, some Occupiers seem to have convinced themselves that […]

[This post begins a series on how the United States can move beyond our current political, economic and social impasse to create a new kind of society. The series continues Via Meadia’s examination of the demise of the blue social model and its effects on American politics and culture.] The frustration and bitterness that fills […]

It’s been over three years since Obama’s promise to use the power of his administration to usher in a new era of green jobs, but green energy companies don’t seem pleased with what they’ve received.  The New York Times reported Thursday that “wind and solar companies are telling Congress that they cannot be truly competitive […]

Via Meadia‘s updates to the “Ten Trends to Watch” continued this week with trends six through ten: Hot Religion, The Age of the Apocolypse, Uneven Development and the “African Time Bomb,” The European Crack-up, and Hope and Change. We also published the first Turkish Press Roundup, courtesy of Via Meadia‘s secret spy in Istanbul.The EU announced its intention to […]