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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary

When conservative rhetoric sounds like Newspeak – David Sirota

Posted on June 7, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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David Brooks on Where Wisdom Lives By Almost Marx

Posted on June 7, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/opinion/07brooks.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss ‘The Clear and Present Dangers of Socialized Medicine’ is a more apt title for this latest piece of genteel political propaganda, produced by everyone’s favorite ‘rational political conservative’,  Mr. David Brooks. Or is it just another maladroit and backhanded … Continue reading →

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Maan News Agency: Non-violence activist addresses Israeli military court

Posted on June 7, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Books of Interest:Amazon.com: Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Issues of Our Time) (9780393060072): Amartya Sen, Henry Louis Gates: Books

Posted on June 7, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Books of Interest:Amazon.com: Sex and Social Justice (9780195112108): Martha C. Nussbaum: Books

Posted on June 7, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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You Can’t March if You’re Dead – Truthdig

Posted on June 6, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Note to Tina Brown: Literary Hack on Billy Graham

Posted on June 6, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Dear Tina Brown, It must be awful dragging that albatross Newsweek around while your little brainchild The Daily Beast flourishes? :  case in point, the reply by  A. Larry  Ross to an unflattering group portrait of the Graham ‘children’, in … Continue reading →

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

Posted on June 5, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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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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