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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

Iran hangs two for involvement in vote unrest: report | Reuters

Posted on January 24, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Iran hangs two for involvement in vote unrest: report Tweet This Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook 0diggsdigg             Related Topics World »             TEHRAN | Mon Jan 24, 2011 … Continue reading →

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The Great Will attempts to Starve the Beast

Posted on January 24, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/19/AR2011011905000.html The Great Will (TGW) entitles his column of January 20, 2011 ‘Hubris heading for a fall’. His first line is from the Folk standard ‘Worried Man Blues’.  Is his essay just a highly garnished political tantrum, by a leading … Continue reading →

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Amazon.com: Alexandre Kojeve: The Roots of Postmodern Politics (9780312120924): Prof. Shadia B. Drury: Books

Posted on January 23, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Oxford University Press: The Philosophers: Ben-Ami Scharfstein

Posted on January 23, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Montaigne and the macaques | Books | The Guardian

Posted on January 23, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Literary Review – Simon Sebag Montefiore – ‘Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir’ by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky

Posted on January 23, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Simon Sebag Montefiore HELL FROZEN OVER Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir By Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky (Translated and edited by Deborah Kaple) (Oxford University Press 272pp £17) Mochulsky (right) In 1940, a 22-year-old Soviet engineer named Fyodor Mochulsky finished his studies … Continue reading →

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Nicholas Carr Reviews Douglas Coupland’s “Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing Of My Work!” | The New Republic

Posted on January 23, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Macmillan: Google Book Preview for “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976: (Lectures at the Collège de France): Books: Michel Foucault

Posted on January 23, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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The One-Eyed Man Is King

Posted on January 23, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010 | The Beast

Posted on January 22, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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