Joel Kotkin thinks it’s no longer the traditional standard of Left vs. Right that defines the political landscape. In New Geography, Kotkin argues that the real divide is between those residing in the tangible world of making, using and growing real things and those floating in the incorporeal world of media and digital transactions.

In Vino Veritas – Or, Whatever It Takes to Get the Truth Out of Such a Crew
Winston Churchill drank his way to saving the world from Nazism and, according to Alec Marsh in Spiked, the old bulldog would fit right in with certain current Parliamentarians enjoying a tipple to endure late-night sittings in Westminster. “Well, why not?” Marsh asks. “Politicians wouldn’t be human if they didn’t.” This news doesn’t, however, sit well with certain neo-puritan scolds from – you guessed it – the Green Party, which on the other hand does support providing free narcotics to welfare recipients.


