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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

Swans and Zombies: Neoliberalism’s Permanent Contradiction | The Nation

Posted on April 14, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

via thenation.com Here is a book review by a brilliant literary stylist and economic thinker, Joshua Clover. Read for yourself ,as he addresses each of the issues raised by the authors of the books under review and marvel at his … Continue reading →

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Niall Ferguson: ‘The left love being provoked by me … they think I’m a reactionary imperialist scumbag’ | Books | The Guardian

Posted on April 13, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

via guardian.co.uk Here in the Guardian is an interview with the Pretty Boy Reactionary. He is a tough little scrapper and proud of provoking us old style lefties with his Historical defense of Empire. But an Empire tarted up like … Continue reading →

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Bill Boyarsky: Obama Jilts the Jobless – Bill Boyarsky’s Columns – Truthdig

Posted on April 13, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Robert Scheer: The False Debate on the Debt – Robert Scheer’s Columns – Truthdig

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Dear Tina Brown

Posted on April 13, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Dear Tina Brown,Congratulations on your hiring of Pretty Boy Reactionary (PBR) to write a regular column for The Daily Beast. But it seems there might be a slight problem with the number of people reading and replying to his essays. … Continue reading →

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Books of Interest:Engineers of the Soul – upcoming | Overlook Press

Posted on April 13, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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To the Shores of (and Skies Above) Tripoli

Posted on April 13, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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The Good Book (thgdbk) on Twitter

Posted on April 13, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Engineers of the Soul: in the Footsteps of Stalin’s Writers by Frank Westerman – Times Online

Posted on April 13, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Isaiah Berlin, visiting Moscow in 1945, complained of the “remarkable pall of total inertia” that hung over Soviet writers. Most had been reduced to the confines of prescribed socialist realism, a genre of homily derided as “boy meets tractor”. Bulgakov … Continue reading →

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Engineers of the Soul, By Frank Westerman, trans. Sam Garrett – Reviews, Books – The Independent

Posted on April 13, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Socialist Realism, the approach prescribed for writers and artists in Stalin’s Soviet Union, has long been described, usually with a sneer, as neither “socialist” nor “realist”. Western critics then pass on to what they judge to be “real” art – … Continue reading →

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