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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

What has happened to the Tea Party Revolution? by Political Cynic

What has happened to the Tea Party Revolution? Allen West will, now, only take written questions from his constituents during public meetings and has anyone who does not follow those rules forcibly ejected  by ‘security’ and some have been arrested. … Continue reading →

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Matt Miller gets feisty, and we love it! Almost Marx

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-next-bank-crisis-is-coming/2011/04…  

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Taking Back the Los Angeles Dodgers | The Nation

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insideIRAN | Clash Over Mashaiee Reveals Fissures Within the Regime

Geneive Abdo and Arash Aramesh It is nearly impossible to determine the degree of stability within the opaque world of Iranian politics, but a number of incidents have come to light recently that reveal deepening fissures within the regime. On … Continue reading →

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Lost archive shows Wittgenstein in a new light | Books | The Guardian

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Robert Scheer: All the WikiLeaks Fit to Print – Robert Scheer’s Columns – Truthdig

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Almost Marx on The Pretenses of a Bourgeois Intellectual: David Brooks, The Big Disconnect

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/opinion/26brooks.html?_r=1&ref=opinion Here is David Brooks and his latest political column ‘The Big Disconnect’: the pleasures of the great overarching metaphor. Some have dubbed him Cockeyed Platonist for his love of forms and ideas rather than commenting on the world as … Continue reading →

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3quarksdaily: Cogito, Non Ergo Porcus: a Review of Jonathan Kramnick’s Actions and Objects: from Hobbes to Richardson

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LRB · Frank Kermode · Paul de Man’s Abyss

Vol. 11 No. 6 · 16 March 1989

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