Monthly Archives: June 2011

Conversations with History: Criticism and the Empirical Attitude, with Frederick Crews – UCTV – University of California Television

Posted on June 5, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.uctv.tv/player/player_uctv_bug.swf via uctv.tv

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Herbert Marcuse on the Frankfurt School: Section 5

Posted on June 5, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Egypt’s sectarian playing field – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

Posted on June 5, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Media complicity in rising xenophobia – Features – Al Jazeera English

Posted on June 5, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Haleh Sahabi: Our Antigone in Tehran – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

Posted on June 4, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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How Israel’s lobby chills Middle East debate – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

Posted on June 4, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Can equality exist in the Jewish state? – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

Posted on June 4, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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David Brooks on ‘The Depravity Factor’: Comment by Political Observer

Posted on June 4, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/opinion/03brooks.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Here is David Brooks exercising his disgust, his contempt for what might be characterized and practiced as necessary political hypocrisy, framed in the bankrupt pieties of the American Political Theology. Here, also, the backhanded apologetics for Israeli intransigence in … Continue reading →

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Unknown Streets by Jorge Luis Borges: A fragment

Posted on June 3, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

…Everything- the drab houses,   the crude banisters,the doorknockers,   perhaps the hopes of a girl dreaming on a balcony-   all entered into my vain heart   with the clarity of tears. …

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Episode LXX of the American Political Melodrama: The Great Will and John Huntsman

Posted on June 2, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jon-huntsmans-thorny-path-to-the-gop-nomination/2011/05/31/AGLPhkGH_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions   The Great Will (TGW)  never tires of promoting rich Republican men as the bearers of the mantle of civic republican virtue, as replacements for the corrupt ‘Socialist’ Barack Obama and the clear and present danger of the ‘entitlement … Continue reading →

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