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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

New Statesman – Make no mistake, Tory economic policy is in trouble

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Mohamed ElBaradei: The Return of the Challenger – Newsweek

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Protests in Egypt – live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk

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Yemen protesters demand change of government | World news | guardian.co.uk

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An Arab Spring? by Dominique Moisi – Project Syndicate

An Arab Spring? PARIS – Is Tunisia the first Arab authoritarian domino to fall? Or is it a unique case that should not be viewed as a precedent for either the Arab world in general or the Maghreb in particular? … Continue reading

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Globalization Marches On by Jagdish Bhagwati – Project Syndicate

    2011-01-25   Globalization Marches On LONDON – In a recent symposium in the Financial Times on globalization’s prospects in 2011, the columnist Gideon Rachman observed that, “When Barack Obama visited India recently, the US President warned his hosts … Continue reading

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Three Paragraphs with comments

Holy neurons- The Times Literary Supplement, January 21, 2011 p. 25 Review by Jonathan Benthall Conceiving God David Lewis-Williams The cognitive origin and evolution of religion 320 pp. Thames and Hudson   ‘Lewis –Williams and other militant atheists of liberal … Continue reading

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Daniel Bell, Ardent Appraiser of Politics, Economics and Culture, Dies at 91

His daughter, Jordy Bell, confirmed the death. Mr. Bell’s output was prodigious and his range enormous. His major lines of inquiry included the failures of socialism in America, the exhaustion of modern culture and the transformation of capitalism from an … Continue reading

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Egypt reaches the boiling point

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Cockeyed Platonist:The State of the Union,Political Nostalgia and Masculine Privilege

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/opinion/25brooks.html?ref=davidbrooks Cockeyed Platonist (CP) like the Establishment Republican, Paul Ryan and the Tea Party’s Michele Bachmann has decided to give his own version of national political sermonizing called the State of the Union Address. Now there is nothing to compare … Continue reading

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