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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

Why employee pensions aren’t bankrupting states | McClatchy

Posted on March 7, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Kagan/Dunne and Imperial Revisionism

Posted on March 7, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/06/AR2011030602928.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions ‘Why Egypt has to be the U.S. Priority in the Middle East’ is both the title of an opinion piece in the Washington Post by Robert Kagan and Michele Dunne,dated March 7,2011, and an imperative to political action for … Continue reading →

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Books of Interest:Amazon.com: Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory (9780199584406): Steve Bruce: Books

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Books of Interest:Oxford University Press: A People of One Book: Timothy Larsen

Posted on March 7, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

  Timothy Larsen is McManis Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has been a Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author or editor of over a … Continue reading →

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Radio Daze – by Liel Leibovitz > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life

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Racketeer Rabbit Republicans | FOK News Channel

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The Associated Press: Beijing tightens controls over foreign media

Posted on March 6, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Beijing tightens controls over foreign media (AP) – 8 hours ago BEIJING (AP) — China’s capital further tightened restrictions on reporting by foreign journalists on Sunday, the latest sign of the government’s determination to prevent the formation of a Middle … Continue reading →

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Human Rights Organizations Condemn the Trial of Civilians before Military Courts | Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights

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Books of Interest:Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson – Jonathan Kramnick

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Books of Interest: Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution – Academic and Professional Books – Cambridge University Press

Posted on March 6, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Seventeenth-century Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of discoveries and innovations. This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608, casts Galileo’s discoveries into a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to China, Mughal India, and the Ottoman Empire, … Continue reading →

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