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Ah, the pleasures of the unbidden commencement address! Here is Cockeyed Platonist (CP) delivering his own version in which he recites the virtues of a mindless bourgeois political and moral conformity,always addressed to those wily heteros and their backsliding ways: … Continue reading →

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-obama-did-to-israel/2011/05/26/AGJfYJCH_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions Here is American Likudnik in his carefully constructed and highly garnished attack, or even just a political tantrum directed at President Obama: he is either a knave or a fool; an incompetent or an Anti-Semite. No original thinking here, … Continue reading →

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In an age when pundits constantly decry overt political bias in the media, we have naturally become skeptical of the news. But the bluntness of such critiques masks the highly sophisticated ways in which the media frame important stories. In … Continue reading →

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From Arnaldo Momigliano. He published books written directly in French, English, Italian, and his native Portuguese. via facebook.com Just re-reading some sections of From Prague to Paris; J.G. Merquior’s superior intellectual history of Structuralist and Post-Structuralist thought, very lively and … Continue reading →