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The general story we tell about boys’ friendships does not include a lot of intimacy. We tend to think boys mostly bond over sports and roughhousing. Not a lot of emotional vulnerability there, we think; that’s for girls’ friendships. Niobe … Continue reading →

via project-syndicate.org Robert Skidelsky handily put Pretty Boy Reactionary and his fellow thinkers in their place. 1865?

Cogitating Peter (CP) is an academic that writes a regular column of political opinion. His major problems as a writer and thinker are two;  his belief, his faith in his own expertise and a palpable contempt for his readers. This … Continue reading →

http://www.statesman.com/flash/weather/weather_widget.swf via statesman.com

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Wednesday that the Israel Defense Forces would continue to use “firm determination and assaults” against terrorist elements in the Gaza Strip, adding that Israel would not tolerate attacks on its citizens or communities.

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By all accounts, philosopher Richard McKeon (1900-85) was a legend in the classroom. The list of students for whom McKeon shepherded an academic pursuit or two reads like a roster of the twentieth-century’s most noted cultural figures: Robert Coover, Paul … Continue reading →

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-21/libya-war-and-the-bosnia-hawks-on-the-obama-team-leading-the-charge/   Peter Beinart in his latest essay on the Daily Beast of March 21, 2011, ‘Behind the Libya War’ displays his usual contempt for ‘ordinary Americans’ who are, in his narrative, unable to read a map, or to read … Continue reading →