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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

The Chicago Blog: TRAFFIC: W. J. T. Mitchell and Tzvetan Todorov

Posted on December 7, 2010 by stephenkmacksd

via pressblog.uchicago.edu

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Europe’s Time to Learn by Harold James – Project Syndicate

Posted on December 7, 2010 by stephenkmacksd

  2010-12-03 PRINCETON – Crises are a chance to learn. For the past 200 years, with the exception of the Great Depression, major financial crises originated in poor and unstable countries, which then needed major policy adjustments. Today’s crisis started … Continue reading →

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ThinkProgress » Exclusive: Memos Reveal Anti-Muslim Group’s Early Efforts To Bring Islamophobia Into The Mainstream

Posted on December 7, 2010 by stephenkmacksd

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Anti-WikiLeaks lies and propaganda – from TNR, Lauer, Feinstein and more – WikiLeaks

Posted on December 7, 2010 by stephenkmacksd

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Don’t shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths | The Australian

Posted on December 7, 2010 by stephenkmacksd

WIKILEAKS deserves protection, not threats and attacks.   IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide’s The News, wrote: “In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win.”

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George Will endorses new, good kind of judicial activism – War Room

Posted on December 7, 2010 by stephenkmacksd

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Chinese missile ranges: China’s missiles | The Economist

Posted on December 7, 2010 by stephenkmacksd

http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/media/2010InfoG/Interactive/Missiles/Missiles4.swf via economist.com

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WikiLeaks’ Wall Street Bombshell – The Daily Beast

Posted on December 7, 2010 by stephenkmacksd

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Overmatched

Posted on December 7, 2010 by stephenkmacksd

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ThinkProgress » Rep. Steve King Calls For The Return Of McCarthyism In Congress: It’s A ‘Good Process’ That He Would ‘Support’

Posted on December 7, 2010 by stephenkmacksd

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