Monthly Archives: September 2011

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-turley-civil-liberties-2… Thank you to Glenn Greenwald for the link to this very important editorial.    

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/brooks-the-lost-decade.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss           The Lost Decade is the latest intellectual entity to make for a cliché ridden column by Mr. Brooks. It is Plato with a heavy garnish of Hegel, not the most palatable repast.  But let us begin at the beginning.  … Continue reading →

Is Occupy Wall Street a harbinger of things to come? Social chaos is not good for business. So the mass arrests of protestors in New York City are probably not surprising. But the brutality of the police is being documented … Continue reading →

Excerpt from a letter dated October 25,1940 to Alexander Woollcott page 397: “…For while I want my friends to understand what I do, I have a fanatical conviction that columnists who undertake to interpret events should not regard themselves as … Continue reading →

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/fa9208f0-e480-11e0-92a3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1YppvW0CO   Is it my imagination or does Mr. Christopher Caldwell, in his latest essay at the Financial Times web site titled ‘The president just does not get the American centre’, dated September 23, 2011, seem to be suffering from … Continue reading →

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/22/house-vote-to-defeat-spending-bill-raises-new-government-shutdown-threat.html Is it anything like a surprise that the Tea Party Jacobins now run the Republican Party? The confidence that the old guard expressed to everyone who would listen; to the hushed tone of confidence in the ability of Washington … Continue reading →

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/8643/ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/opinion/the-amateur-ideal.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/clinton-and-obama-learned-nothing-remembered-nothing/2011/03/29/gIQA9zHVoK_blog.html#pagebreak In her column of September 22,2011 Jennifer Rubin severely scolds President Obama and President Clinton for deviating from the AIPAC and Neo-Conservative line on Israel. Not anything like a surprise from an American Likudnik. http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/james-renton/palestines-un-bid-lessons-from-history-of-zionism But here is James … Continue reading →

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/ReligionTheology/SociologyofRel… I just received my September 16, 2011 issue of the TLS. In it is Bernice Martin’s review titled Feel the Power in which she reviews A Sociology of Religious Emotion. Ms. Martin does engage in a disagreement with Jurgen … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/opinion/brooks-obama-rejects-obamaism.html?_r=4&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss    "I’m a sap, a specific kind of sap. I’m an Obama Sap.”  It is a rather well worn rhetorical trope to make oneself the butt of one’s criticism of another by indirection. Mr. Brooks like so many others … Continue reading →