Monthly Archives: October 2011

On the Polemical use of the ’68rs’ by Political Observer

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 It’s very interesting to compare the usages of the ‘68rs’ i.e. the ‘Radical Left’ activists  that Mr. Lind and Mr. Will argue in their respective essays, on the Occupy Wall Street … Continue reading

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The Great Will on Occupy Wall Street by POlitical Observer

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/can-occupy-wall-street-give-liberals-a-lift/2011/10/11/gIQA8GyCgL_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions   Ah! The pleasures of The Great Will’s (TGW) manufactured  hysterical proclamation about the dirty hippies of Occupy Wall Street, barely contained by the demands of a nearly coherent rhetoric: garnished by score settling political asides about Solyndra, and … Continue reading

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On The Cult of Niebuhr by Political Observer

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2011/10/john_diggins_why_niebuhr_now_reviewed_how_did_he_become_the_phil.html How can one dismiss the Christian Realism of Reinhold Niebuhr? Because his special brand of intellectually inflected political conformism fits so handily in this modern age of outright attacks on citizens, by their own government? Of drone attacks on … Continue reading

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Zahra’s Paradise a cri de coeur

http://blog.amnestyusa.org/middle-east/graphic-novel-about-irans-post-electio…  

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Jonathan Chait on OWS, or Can Liberalism Survive? by Almost Marx

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/10/should_liberals_like_occupy_wa.html Why can't those unwashed hippies be more like us sane self-congratulating Liberals? Who can't stop characterizing Obama's policies as moderate when, in fact, they are moderately conservative, at best. See that lefty Paul Krugman's essays in the New York … Continue reading

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Books of Interest: The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond by Boris Groys Translated by Charles Rougle

http://www.versobooks.com/books/973-the-total-art-of-stalinism  

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Books of Interest: Rome and Rhetoric Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar by Gary Wills

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300152180  

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Books of Interest: The Reactionary Mind, Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin by Corey Robin

http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/PoliticalTheory/?vi…  

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Books of Interest:American Neoconservatism: The Politics and Culture of a Reactionary Idealism by Jean-Francois Drolet

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-70228-7/american-neoconservatism

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Books of Interest: Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making by Graham Harman

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-7486-4080-5/quentin-meillassoux  

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