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Predictions about legal education in 2012? I'll open "comments" for this purpose. Civil, constructive, and non-anonymous, pretty please.
OK, I'll start (although these are more hopes than predictions):
(1) From enrage to engage: We will see professional educators and lawyers working more thoughtfully to respond to the drumbeat of criticism about the structure of American legal education and its challenges. The truth, after all, lies between "it's rotten all the way down" and "it's the best of all possible worlds." Engagement among stakeholders, the press, political officials, and the public is the logical next step.
(2) Constructive transparency: Many law schools, including ours, have responded to the reasonable pleas to communicate more detailed, useful information about placement. The focus will turn from what the law schools don't do, to what they can and should do to inform prospective and current students in useful ways.
(3) Law schools as public service incubators: The demands of the public, and especially the poor, for legal services is ever growing. Law schools, public and private, big and small, national and regional, must and will develop mechanisms to serve the disadvantaged and to provide access to both basic and complex legal work.
(4) Costs, funding, and progress: The expense of providing first-class legal training can be expected to grow; tuition cannot continue to grow with it. Law schools need to seek alternative sources of funding. Without doubt, private philanthropy is required to sustain the initiatives befitting ambitious law schools in a modern economy.
(5) Give peace a chance: Understandably anxious, and occasionally antagonistic, current and ex-law students (along with an occasional law professor) have reached for the moral high ground by attacking law schools root-and-branch. But, there is a common interest in supporting the model of legal education that remains the envy of the world, while also engaging in constructive criticism. Maybe, just maybe, 2012 will see the replacement of scambloggers with rational, albeit hard-hitting, dialogue among the myriad stakeholders. All we are saying . . .
Dec 27 2011
Much of the current disenchantment stems from the enormous economic downturn and attendant layoffs and failure-to-hires of recent law school graduates. This produces a demand for both better information about placement (and, perhaps, bar passage), as well as heartfelt but unfocused requests for training that will enable graduates to function as lawyers. If and when the economy improves, these feelings will not disappear, but will become less intense. To the extent that we take the latter request seriously, it will not lead, by and large, to doing a lot more public interest work. Although that work may produce some generalized skills training (e.g. how to draft a complaint), there is precious little paid work in public interest. Rather, taking the demand for skill seriously leads down a path to law schools having a law firm (just as medical schools have hospitals) where students start to learn how to practice under lawyer-professors, who both provide training and who charge clients for their services. We would need to work hard to make the position of lawyer-professor prestigious, so that we could attract the best and the brightest. Law school might become 4 years instead of 3. And there will be negotiations between the lawyer-professors and the Deans of law schools about how to split fees. Deans of law schools will need new sets of skills, akin to managing partner at a large law firm.
Dec 29 2011
Truly, law schools will need to develop strategies and structures to adapt to the reconfiguration of the legal marketplace. New models for legal services provision is a worthwhile direction for sure. (Although one surely wonders how law schools will navigate the political waters given the concerns likely to be raised by small law firms and solo practitioners with which the law school law firms will compete.
Separately, this venture doesn't, and indeed doesn't purport to, deal with matters concerning the provision of legal services to individuals who cannot afford to pay fees. Law school clinics have long been organized, and I believe rightly so, around the notion that law students should be engaged in public service — this regardless of the paucity of post-graduation paying jobs in the public interest sector.
Jan 1 2012
I agree entirely that my suggestion does not address the issue of service to those who cannot afford lawyers and the legal system. There are two reasons for this. First, the development and orientation of legal clinics (in law schools) is already aimed right at this issue. Clinics almost always represent those who are underserved. In fact, NU Law is already a leader at this. But almost all other top law schools are oriented the same way. Second, IMO, the solution to this problem (and I should put "solution" in scare quotes) rests in constructing new institutional designs for dispute resolution, for getting help with creating a corporation, and so forth. (To some extent the private market is already doing this. See legalzoom.com, etc.) This cannot be done just by changing the classes we give to law students. Law profs, working with economists, political scientists, members of the bar, judges, etc., will need to produce these new structures. Implementation of more efficient structures for solving legal problems of those with few resources will be politically difficult. But that's why I regard this issue as one which is poorly framed as one facing "law schools," as opposed to one facing society, and one which law profs — more than their schools — will likely have a hand in ameliorating.
This are just my views, and are for comparison purposes, only. Your views may differ . . . .
Jan 4 2012
Prof. Spitzer,
I wonder how much institutional resistance one might face in implementing such a revolutionary program. When I was the Student Representative to my law school's Curriculum Committee, I made a similar suggestion, but I was laughed out of the room. The few who did comment on my idea made oblique reference to ABA requirements, but no one substantively engaged the point I attempted to make, leaving me with the impression that the faculty thinks no reforms need be implemented.
I cannot imagine my alma mater is unique in that regard.
Jan 8 2012
I think there will be a lot of institutional resistance, at first. But there is a lot to be gained, particularly for students. It will take a law dean and faculty who have courage and vision to make this happen.
Dec 29 2011
Dan–Very thoughtful principles. I think there is much to be done to move the model of legal education towards a more engaged approach, in which we teach and think about how to be an effective problem-solving agent in law, and how to produce more effective legal systems. I agree with you that the call is for serious thinking about how to accomplish this and a dialogue that moves beyond the polar extremes of 'do away with law schools' and 'keep law schools exactly as they are.'
Jan 4 2012
"The expense of providing first-class legal training can be expected to grow."
No, it will not. Herb Stein's law: "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." Tuition cannot keep growing faster than inflation, indefinitely. Good luck getting students to pay for it, graduates are broke. Good luck getting the gov't to pay for it with an increase in the deficit under an eventual Republican administration. Good luck getting donations from corporations and the private sector, they abhor lawyers.
Jan 4 2012
Another thing the medical profession does is restrict the number of physicians that graduate every year, much more so than the legal profession reduces the number of lawyers minted annually. Besides artificially improving the job market in favor of the profession (what is the cartel for, if not this?), it also increases the average quality of physicians in America. It is very hard to get into medical school, and earning an MD typically endows a person with the respect of the general public. This is partly because doctors are very often hard-working and intelligent folk who are worthy of our respect.
Earning a J.D. can also gain one the respect of the public, but only from an elite law school (no comment on which schools are "elite"). Saying "I'm a lawyer" does not impress in today's America, and a large reason for this is that the legal profession is barely a cartel–any half-intelligent dope can get a J.D. The libertarians are correct that licensing requirements for lawyers keep individuals out of the profession, but they neglect to mention that those shut out are the dimwits and hucksters (and some of these still slip through the cracks). The legal profession already lets too many people in, and the profession is thus now a mediocore one. Lacking any honor or dignity from their jobs, the private practice lawyers have decided to become businessmen instead of independent professionals ("If I can't get respect or satisfaction, I'll at least be rich"!)
If the legal profession really wants to get its groove back, it should pare back entering law school classes to med school levels. This will make it easier for new lawyers to find a job (less competition) and will almost automatically raise the skill of the average lawyer. This in turn will put law back on the road to its rightful and dignified place as a noble profession whose practicioners are widely-respected. This might raise the price of legal services, but don't forget about the societal costs associated with mediocore lawyers and lawyer-businesspersons–lawyers still have a drastic impact on society.
Jan 4 2012
Law schools already have clinics, but they don't typically charge their clients. The cost is largely covered by general operating funds, which in turn consist largely of tuition payments. It's hard to disagree with the notion that the clinical piece of legal education is vital. But it's also expensive. With respect to the medical profession, my understanding is that Medicare in effect funds a huge proportion of the Residency costs for teaching hospitals. I very much doubt that taxpayers would be willing to similarly subsidize the training costs for would-be lawyers. That means that clients of the proposed law school/law firm would need to be willing to underwrite these costs themselves. Clients have balked at paying to train young lawyers in private practice; I wonder what will make them change their minds when it comes to funding the training of student/lawyers in the proposed law school/law firm model.
Jan 5 2012
I think this has to be right. If our goal is truly to train legal professionals – then almost undoubtedly the medical school model (or something close) would be preferable to law school as it exists. But the truth is that we can't afford the medical school model, for the reasons you state. Law school remains largely unchanged for lots and lots of reasons, but one is cost (yes tuition is rising rapidly, but that money has mostly gone places other than curricular change). I don't say this to throw up my hands. But rather to acknowledge that the current crisis in legal ed (and yes, I'd say that it's a crisis) won't be easily (or one dimensionally) solved.
Jan 4 2012
Matt and Dan,
Rather than look at the medical school as the model, perhaps we should note that among professional schools medical schools are unique in the the extent to which the training provided looks almost like an apprenticeship model. Like good law schools, other professional schools such as engineering and business — at least the good ones — recognize that their areas consist of taking results from other substantive areas (the physical sciences for engineering, social sciences for business) and applying them to a well defined set of problems dealing with the use of science, or the business enterprise. This is closer to what a good legal education does. Now, there are complaints about business education that sound a bit like the complaints about legal education, but they don't get nearly as much play. We might, in legal education, choose to emulate the B-school model (as I am told NU has started to do) as being more relevant than the medical school model.
Jan 5 2012
I predict that legal education in general and law schools in particular will continue to be under the microscope in 2012. Some of the criticism is appropriate, and Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers is one of the efforts designed to address that legitimate criticism. Some of it, however, is both projection and scape-goating. We live in a society in which institutions are on the decline in the eyes of the public. Many commentators regularly disparage lawyers and judges, and affix no small amount of blame to us for the current state of affairs. Law schools incubate lawyers, and are thus prime targets for that negative energy. The challenge for legal educators in 2012 is to stand up for the importance of what law schools do, and the importance of lawyers in our world – while simultaneously becoming more innovative and more student-centered in the classrooms: in order to graduate knowledgeable students with practical skills and a keen sense of professional identity. So, the microscope will continue to magnify the problems in 2012; our challenge is to make sure that the attention is ultimately productive.
Jan 5 2012
"Good luck getting donations from corporations and the private sector, they abhor lawyers."
Let's assume that's accurate as a perception, whether or not it's accurate in fact (i.e., the private sectors uses lots of lawyers whether or not it abhors them). We ought to do something that is a regular practice in the corporate world (at least where you see enlightened focus on solving problems) which is to get to the root cause of the perception.
It takes more than a comment on a blog post to do that kind of root cause thinking, but my hypothesis is that what people abhor about lawyers is the perception (and the common reality) that they are not problem-solvers, but game players in a particularly guild-controlled and non-intuitive game that purports to solve problems. There is always going to be a core of dispute resolution that reverts to the archetype of zealous adversarial advocacy to adjudicative bodies, but all dispute resolution need not fit that model, and more importantly, all problem-solving is not merely dispute resolution.
The cutting edge is finding a way to nudge legal education (and the profession) away from its overwhelming focus on the adversarial advocacy model and toward a problem-solving model in an increasingly interdisciplinary or post-disciplinary world (which, by the way, blurs the long-standing dichotomy between litigation and transactional work). Our human resources people never abhorred lawyers who rolled up their sleeves and solved problems, nor did our environmental groups, nor our marketing or purchasing executives, but being such a lawyer takes a certain state of mind, namely, the willingness to operate in what I've referred to as the Venn diagram overlap of legal and non-legal decision-making.
I think there's a place in the world for legally-trained problem solvers. I don't know if that place supports (a) the number of lawyers we are currently producing, (b) at the cost it takes to produce them, (c) using the pedagogical and curricular techniques we use to train them. But "nudge" is the right word because we have to deal with the institutional structure that exists now (whether or not it's envy of the world) as the base line, and don't have the luxury of writing on a blank slate. Nevertheless, I'd love to see more discussion about way we'd re-create the institution if we could start from scratch, and then think about how to nudge from here towards there.
Jan 5 2012
Dan R. – good stuff – I think that it is important that folks be aware of what is really happening — we have a deep, deep skills mismatch – the training that is being offered is deeply out of touch with labor market demand – maybe this will be the year when folks in our business really get get on board with the manner in which science/LegalTech/Startupculture, etc. can help us reinvent our industry.
Okay – here is the hard truth – the future is going to have fewer lawyers and they are going to look different (much more technology centric).
Great news is that schools that are hip to the new game can Moneyball the others — it is an age of peril and possibility —
Now … a few related thoughts:
(a) "Tuition cannot keep growing faster than inflation, indefinitely" — iron rule of leverage – he/she who deleverages first has to deleverage least – who will be the first to seriously do so before they are staring a major budget deficit in the face?
(b) The Rise of the Polytechnic Law School — or — What I have Called the "MIT School of Law"
Note: Northwestern took very positive steps under your predecessor — but I believe there was ultimately a revolt ?
(c) Alternative sources of funding – this is related to the Polytechnic Law School — social science is not really the answer for real $$ – the real money is in the physical and computer science areas (where law is an important example application)
(Look at NSF – Computer Science = Social Science x 50 ) only a slight exaggeration Another source of $$ = Legal R&D – legal information engineering and legal research parks (to be fair this was Larry Ribstein's idea but I totally agree this where we are headed)
BTW – Here is the work of my team: http://computationallegalstudies.com/
(d) A Broader Notion of what "Legal Theory" Actually Means – Just ask Sociologists what happened when the physicists showed up and started doing network science (short story: lights out for sociology). Expect contributions from AI, High End Data Science (no not Econometrics but Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, etc. ) (and those contributions will be directly meaningful to the legal education and the future practice of law)
(e) Legal Supply Chain Mgmt: Classic B-School stuff but it is uber relevant to the GC's and they will hire folks who can help them manage the legal supply chain and look for value proposition in legal procurement
(f) Alternative Business Structures – UK goes live with the ABS – Tesco Law coming soon – how long until WalMart Law / Target Law (BTW beyond the regulatory piece – this is legal supply chain + software problem) My students (perhaps your students as well) are going to be in the middle of it starting this summer – http://21stcenturylawpractice.com/
Look there is lots more I could say but I would rather just develop things and have the rest of you try to react or catch up —
Jan 6 2012
I think Jeff Lipshaw's problem-solver comment gets at the essence of what I think legal education has been about for a very long time. The differences between the fundamental nature of legal education and that of medical training make the medical school model a very poor fit for law schools. We train people in a way of problem solving that can be used in future scenarios unimaginable at the time. I went to law school before recombinant DNA technology existed and have written a book on biotech law. While the range of human diseases is certainly not a hermetically sealed universe, medical training is primarily focused on differential diagnosis to be followed by treatments chosen from the existing armamentarium. Medical school training is not training medical researchers, but practitioners who may adopt new treatments when the researchers make them available and, in many cases, train the practitioners in their application. I sure hope my students will be able to invent new approaches to tomorrow's new challenges. Clinical training is a very inefficient way to do that.
Mar 20 2012
Prof. Spitzer,
I wonder how much institutional resistance one might face in implementing such a revolutionary program. When I was the Student Representative to my law school's Curriculum Committee, I made a similar suggestion, but I was laughed out of the room. The few who did comment on my idea made oblique reference to ABA requirements, but no one substantively engaged the point I attempted to make, leaving me with the impression that the faculty thinks no reforms need be implemented.
I cannot imagine my alma mater is unique in that regard.
Mar 20 2012
"The expense of providing first-class legal training can be expected to grow."
Good luck getting students to get pay for it, graduates are broke. Good luck getting the government to pay for it with an increase in the deficit under an eventual Republican administration. Good luck getting donations from corporations and the private sector, they abhor lawyers. I'll stay tuned for more


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May 01, 2008Orff's Spectacular "Carmina Burana" Features Cast of Hundreds; Concerts Dedicated to Eastman Kodak Company
Rochester, NY – As the grand finale to its landmark 85th anniversary season, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra under music director Christopher Seaman presents Carl Orff's spectacular Carmina Burana, whose text popularized the "wheel of fortune" centuries before Vanna White. The concerts on Thursday, May 22 and Saturday, May 24 at 8 p.m. at the Eastman Theatre, will provide a sight and sound rarely experienced on the Eastman Theatre stage, with a combined total of 255 RPO musicians and singers from the Rochester Oratorio Society (Eric Townell, director), vocal soloists Barbara Shirvis, John Gaston and Aaron St. Clair Nicholson and the Spectrum Singers – 16 high school students from Rush-Henrietta High School. This invigorating program also features Strauss' roguish tone poem Don Juan and Delius' tragic love story, The Walk to the Paradise Garden. Christopher Seaman hosts the 7 p.m. pre-concert chat.
In grateful appreciation of Eastman Kodak Company's recent $10 million commitment to the renovation and expansion of the Eastman Theatre complex the RPO is proud to dedicate these performances to Kodak. "This renovation will transform the entire concert experience for our patrons for generations to come," says RPO president Charlie Owens. "With a more intimate seating capacity—and 2,250 new seats!—Kodak Hall itself will come alive with new energy and excitement at every performance."
Opening the concert will be Richard Strauss' orchestral showpiece Don Juan, a portrait of the gallant aristocrat who specializes in breaking women's hearts. The swaggering, swashbuckling French horns represent Don Juan, in contrast to the beautiful oboe as the female heart. Strauss' spectacular orchestration of this colorful work made it his first big success, which it has remained ever since. Next, Frederick Delius' hauntingly beautiful The Walk to the Paradise Garden from his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet follows a young couple fated never to be together. Delius' music masterfully portrays a poignant moment of yearning and nostalgia as the two lovers walk sadly through a beautiful garden to face their own tragic destiny.
The concert culminates with Carl Orff's magnificent Carmina Burana, which brilliantly illuminates all aspects of love, passion, pleasure and fate. Inspired by a collection of unusually secular ancient manuscripts written by wandering scholars and defrocked priests, Orff's intention was to compose a work that would appeal to the masses. Carmina Burana begins with one of the most recognized musical themes ever written – O Fortuna (Luck, Empress of the World) — saluting the inscrutable, unpredictable concept of luck and destiny. The next two movements In Springtime and On the Green highlight the joy of springtime (a feeling to which all of Rochester can relate!). The riotous In the Tavern salutes the juice of the grape with a falsetto tenor soloist as a swan slowly roasting on a spit, and a baritone soloist as an Abbot leading the choir in a rollicking ode to drink. After traveling through the lyrical Court of Love, the spectacular soprano solo In the Balance and the ecstatic fervor of Blanzifor and Helena, Orff's grandiose opening hymn to luck returns, in cyclical fashion, to close Carmina Burana as majestically as it began.
The RPO is proud to continue its long history with the Rochester Oratorio Society, which this year marks Music Director Eric Townell's second season with the organization. The ROS has grown to become Rochester's premier large concert chorus. In July 2008, the ROS will perform in Beijing, China, as the keynote ensemble of the pre-Olympic Cultural Festival. In addition, the ROS has toured six European capitals and given numerous Rochester premieres of major works. As only its third director, Mr. Townell is widely recognized as a versatile and dynamic conductor of choral, operatic and symphonic repertoire. A two-time prize winner of the International Opera Conducting Course/Competition, he also leads the Master Singers of Milwaukee.
Barbara Shirvis began her opera career at New York City Opera, where for a decade she sang such roles as Micäela in Carmen, Pamina in Magic Flute, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier and Yum-Yum in Mikado. Her credits have grown to include the roles with such companies as Toledo Opera, Cleveland Opera, Kentucky Opera, New Jersey Opera Theatre, San Diego Opera, Berkshire Opera and Syracuse Opera. Barbara Shirvis' 2007-08 season includes appearances with the Kentucky Opera and the North Carolina Symphony.
John Gaston made his Carnegie Hall debut in Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, and sang the American premiere of Giya Kancheli's Diplipito (for countertenor and chamber orchestra). Mr. Gaston is a first-place winner of Florida Grand Opera's competition and a regional finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition competition. Recent highlights include the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago as well as performing Apollo in Death in Venice at Glimmerglass Opera and appearing with Atlanta Opera in a gala concert.
Baritone Aaron St. Clair Nicholson has won praise for his superb vocal gifts and the dramatic integrity he brings to his performances. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Schaunard in La Bohème and followed those performances with Papageno in The Magic Flute. An alumnus of the prestigious Glimmerglass and Merola programs for young artists, Mr. Nicholson starred in a new Glimmerglass production of The Barber of Seville as the wily barber and as Lt. Lukash in The Good Soldier Schweik. Highlights for next season include return engagements at the Florida Grand Opera, Calgary Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria and the Vancouver Symphony.
Tickets for these performances begin at $22, available online 24/7 at www.rpo.org, by phone (454-2100); in person from the RPO Box Office, Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (non-concert Saturdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.); and seven days a week at area Wegmans. A convenience fee may apply. Students and senior citizens are entitled to a 20% discount on advance single ticket purchases as well as half-price rush tickets beginning at 10 a.m. on the concert day.
The Philharmonics Series is sponsored by The Eastman Kodak Company and Bausch & Lomb. This concert is supported by The Mozart Performance Fund. The RPO gratefully acknowledges PAETEC Communications Inc. for the PAETEC Philharmonic Partners program, which offers $5 Philharmonics Series tickets to local college students with valid ID.
Now in its 85th season, the RPO inspires and enriches the community through the art of music. The Orchestra is passionately dedicated to outstanding musical performance at the highest artistic levels, and has a unique tradition of musical versatility, commitment to music education in the broadest sense, and a deep and enduring engagement with the community. The RPO has been honored with the New York State Governor's Arts Award and two recent ASCAP awards for adventurous programming. RPO performances are made possible in part with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; the State of New York; Monroe County and the City of Rochester.
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Early Game
If you are laning with a tank then go for first blood and stay aggressive but not overly or else you will feed like a little ***** and your whole team will hate you. At Level 3 u can almost kill any DPS with teh help of a different champion.
Middle Game
At Level 10-11 you should have a Sunfire Cape, Philospher's Stone, and Ninja Tabi. This means u have about 120 armour and like 1.5k Health. Also "Sunfire Cape has a Passive that will make u hit 35-45 Damage per second if you are in range. Now is when you get really aggressive and get fed if you aren't already. Your Ultimate helps a ton wen they start to run because it snares and you can let your Moves Cooldown.
End Game
By now if you follow these Statistics you will be around level 18 by time 25-35 minutes depending on how fed you are. You can now start Downing Turrets and Collecting Buffs. Tell your team to get Baron and you will now be able to get the nexus.
Really Good AoE
High Armour and Health
2 Stuns
If not fed Pretty bad
Early Game you get harassed a lot


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I had 2 or 3 lucid dreams that i was at another planet. The scenario was amazing, so beautiful, with trees, ocean and lots of color. I say that it was another planet because the sky was a bright purple and had more than 1 moon.
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We are now deep in the throes of the rise of populist movements all over the Western world. From the election of Donald Trump, to Brexit, to Ford Nation here in Canada, to the growing success of populist parties all over Western Europe, populism is on the march.
Populism itself isn't necessarily the problem. A neutral definition of populism is support for the concerns of ordinary people and no one would argue that supporting their concerns is a bad thing. It's not that we don't need populism; it's that we need to shift from the wrong kind to the right one.
These populist movements arose in response to the legitimate concern that our outmoded institutions no longer work for the benefit of ordinary people. We are in the midst of an economic revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since agrarian societies gave way to the widespread mechanization brought on by the Industrial Revolution. Now, mechanization is being replaced with computerization. While such revolutions improve all lives in the long run, their transition phases concentrate wealth and power while dispossessing large swathes of people from their traditional sources of income.
This concentration and dispossession is at the root of the legitimate issues that populists rail against. Elitism, rent-seeking, influence-peddling, cash-for-access politics, deep inequality, social disintegration, and institutional breakdown are just some of the genuine problems that must be solved. The populists are at least partly right about what we're facing.
While their identification of the problem is somewhat correct, the "solution" offered by most populist movements is a cure worse than the disease.
Their backward-looking, destructive populism seeks to tear down institutions rather than make them work. It advocates an impossible return to a romanticized past while exploiting the divisive tribalism prevalent during times of hardship to blame demonized scapegoats — like foreign countries, immigrants, minorities and the oppressed — for social problems. And beneath its surface looms the spectre of thuggish authoritarianism that so often accompanies periods of great upheaval.
Reactionary politics of this kind has never improved the human condition.
We must therefore chart a third path, different both from government for the privileged and the destructive populism we've had to date. We must rebuild our institutions and make them work for ordinary people. In short, we must advocate for a forward-looking, reconstructive populism.
Reconstructive populism is nothing new and has been the most effective approach to date for improving the lives of ordinary people in the long run. The way forward during the Industrial Revolution wasn't to resist progress and go backward toward a romanticized agrarian past (though some movements tried). It was to use the wealth generated by mechanization to fund the industrial welfare state's public health care, education, and other social programs and services. This vastly improved the lives of ordinary people over that of their farming ancestors.
In the same vein, the way forward from our present moment is not to look backward to our industrial past but to take the wealth we're generating through computerization and fund more services to improve the lives of ordinary people.
The computer-age equivalent of building the welfare state is to provide a productivity-pegged basic income as I've described elsewhere.
Just like the welfare state, providing a productivity-pegged basic income would vastly improve the lives of today's ordinary people over their industrial ancestors while eliminating the economic stresses and vulnerabilities that drove so many of them into the arms of destructive populists in the first place.
Ultimately, the only way to defeat destructive populism is to offer progressive solutions to the problems that first incited it. Ignoring legitimate concerns will only inflame it and will increase the risk of moving backward. Reconstructive populism once again offers the path to a better future for ordinary people and we should re-embrace it without delay.
Matt Risser is a frequent radio and newspaper commentator on issues related to governance, policy and democratic reform. He lives in Lunenburg.


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Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a city that prides itself on its industrial history. It's the birthplace of magnet wire, a type of coiled copper or aluminum that became a major player in the development of modern-day electronics.
So it's no surprise General Electric established a factory in this part of Indiana in 1911. There were over 10,000 workers in that factory alone, making it an important landmark for the Fort Wayne community ― and leaving some residents now less than excited it's going to be redeveloped.
With the fall of the industrial age, the campus has been vacant for years. Greater Fort Wayne Inc., which operates as the chamber of commerce and economic development organization for Fort Wayne and Allen County, has a plan to bring the deserted factory back to life with the help of two consulting groups.
The project will transform the vacant 1.2 million square feet of land into a mixed-use "innovation district" that will include high-rise apartments, restaurants, office spaces and more. The first phase of the estimated $220 million project is projected to be complete in 2020, with the second half of construction wrapping up a few years after that, said Kevin Erb, who works in communications for an advertising company representing the project.
"A revitalized Electric Works campus will energize our economy, create jobs, and inspire many generations to use their creative talents to improve the lives of others," said Eric Doden, CEO of Greater Fort Wayne Inc.
HuffPost got to tour the abandoned space before its transformation begins. Check out the spooky photos below, including a full-size basketball court and a bowling alley that was once used for GE employees.
An old building in the Electric Works compound once owned by General Electric that will now be repurposed into a multiuse campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
An overview image of the Electric Works compound.
Kevin Erb shows a photo of what the vision is for the Electric Works compound.
Coat hooks in the General Electric clubhouse that have gone unused for decades.
Blue film covering the windows at General Electric's abandoned manufacturing plant
An eerie blue glow as light floods into one of General Electric's disused factories.
Inside an industrial lift at General Electric's disused industrial site.
A basketball court sits unused in the Electric Works compound.
This factory used to have 10,000 employees working around the clock.
Seats at the General Electric employee baseball court.
Piping in the Electric Works.
Water leaking into one of the abandoned General Electric factory buildings.
Old bowling lanes sit unused.
Old bowling pin machines.
An abandoned bowling ball at the General Electric employee clubhouse.
Old bowling shoes sit unused.
Pictures of old trucks show just how long ago the General Electric manufacturing plant shut its doors.
Rust-stained pavement.
The tour group makes its way through the Electric Works compound.
Various rooms sit unused in the Electric Works compound.
Walkways between buildings a littered with plaster that has fallen.
- This article originally appeared on HuffPost.


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LAS TERRENAS, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC--(Marketwire - Oct 23, 2012) - Nestled on the Dominican Republic's most pristine shore, Sublime Samana Hotel & Residences is celebrating Jet Blue's new route into Samana with a special incentive for Jet Blue travelers. Effective November 14, Jet Blue will begin to offer twice weekly flights between New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and Samana's El Catey International Airport (AZS).
In celebration of its newfound accessibility, Sublime Samana Hotel & Residences is offering those travelers flying Jet Blue a 15% discount off regular room rates for stays booked prior to December 20, 2012.
An ideal vacation spot for families and couples alike, the recently opened Sublime Samana offers guests access to a collection of 20 private suites and casitas overlooking a spectacular matrix of interlocking pools stretching to the inviting sea. Far off the island's usual tourist trails, the secluded property provides guests access to six-miles of sandy, palm-fringed beach. The breathtaking turquoise waters, steps from the pure golden sand, are unmatched anywhere in the Caribbean.
Sublime Samana's remarkably spacious accommodations, from one-bedroom suites to three-bedroom casitas, all feature large bedrooms with king-sized and double beds. One of the most inviting features of all rooms is the commodious sitting room and fully equipped kitchen. Guests can unwind after a day of exploration or beachside relaxation on their own private veranda -- take a soak in their outdoor whirlpool and watch the sunset over the horizon.
The Samana province of the island's northeastern coast remains one of the most undiscovered, unspoiled natural habitats of the Dominican Republic, and notably the Caribbean as a whole. In a setting surrounded by a backdrop of lush, tropical mountains, guests enjoy unparalleled seclusion, while swimming through sparkling turquoise waters and relaxing in luxurious shaded sunbeds that virtually hover above the property's serene pools.
Those looking to venture off the property can embark on excursions including snorkeling adventures and trips to the spectacular Limon waterfall or to the National Park Los Haitises with its calcified hills, caves, mangroves, multitudes of bird species and exotic sea turtles. Guests visiting between January and March, can take a whale-watching boat trip to see the humpback whales arrive annually in Samana to mate, give birth and nurse their young.
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Here's an analogy... For the purposes of this anlogy, we have a gun range and a gun shop that sits right beside the gun range, where people talk about their hobby and a range of topics associated with their hobby.
The cast of our analogy include:
A seasoned marksman who has been in the hobby for years (no, actually decades). This marksman currently runs another range and while he generally shoots rifles, he is generally interested in all elements of firearms.
A new range owner who has spent heaps of time promoting his new range (actually the one next to the gun shop) but is running into the same problems that the seasoned marksman has seen time and again over the years.
A young shooter, who has shot a few times but certainly doesn't own a range of their own, and is a friend of the new range owner.
Scenario begins:
New Range Owner: I spend all this time and effort making targets, and all they want to shoot at is that silly shrub on the side of the range that looks like a duck.
Seasoned Marksman: Yep. Been there.
Young Shooter: HOW DARE YOU TALK TO OUR RANGE MASTER LIKE THAT!?!?! I HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN YOU ON OUR RANGE, YOUR NOT A REAL SHOOTER. I'M GOING TO TAKE OFFENCE TO ANYTHING YOU SAY...BECAUSE....STUFF!!!
(The seasoned marksman suspects that her next line is going to be "AND I'M A FRIEND OF THE RANGE OWNER, AND IF YOU KEEP TALKING TO HIM YOU'LL MAKE ME CRY")
The seasoned marksman is a part of a community of similar range owners, and checks the member listing to see if this you g shooter is someone he should be concerned about...maybe they run a range of their own, maybe they co-own the range next to this shop...nope, they're just showing the traits of someone who is mouthy and obnoxious.
Meanwhile on the other side of town, a range specialising in shotguns decides it won't let rifle shooters come anywhere near their site, even if those rifle shooters are interested in seeing how shotgun enthusiasts do things differently. This shotgun site was just shown on a quirky TV show with all of the enthusiasts carrying rifles... and look, there's the new range owner and the young shooter with them on TV.
A few old the seasoned marksman's old shooting competitors see how ludicrous the whole situation is. They all spent years trying to get the hobby to a point where it is now a small but legitimately accepted pursuit. They agree through various phone calls and personal chats that these status seeking new arrivals don't respect the work that was done for them, and that they stand on the shoulders of others who did a lot of the heavy lifting.
Then there's the dude who has a reputation for making an ass of himself in NERF circles, but who runs a popular air-rifle show and therefore thinks he is the gatekeeper to the hobby for anyone who hasn't held a firearm of any type... He chimes in, saying that the seasoned marksman isn't building a good reputation, despite the numerous things that the seasoned marksman has heard about him. The marksman dismisses him as another youngster who also has no respect for the events of the past.
The seasoned marksman goes home, and vents his frustration by explaining the situation in a thinly veiled analogy about LARP. He knows that many of the young ones won't read it, others might be too oblivious to realise the analogy refers to them, and many of the old shooting competitors will fead through the analogy and get a good laugh out of it.