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Mr. Brooks in his column of March 15,2012 is at his comic best, describing the ‘cagey’ President Obama. But it isn’t so much a moment of political revelation, as perhaps, a parable about how the president will lose the election … Continue reading →

Here is Michael Tomasky’s latest essay at The Daily Beast on the subject of the political viability of President Obama endorsing gay marriage. Mr. Tomasky assures the reader that he is on the right side of this issue, a quote … Continue reading →

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/us/new-look-at-an-old-memo-casts-more-doubt… ‘For starters, of course, Justice Jackson joined the unanimous opinion in Brown in 1954. And Justice Jackson’s secretary, Elsie Douglas, told John P. MacKenzie of The Washington Post in 1971 that Mr. Rehnquist had “smeared the reputation of a … Continue reading →

What do David Brooks, The American Enterprise Institute, and the world’s population demographics have in common? That and other questions are elucidated in Mr. Brooks essay of March 12, 2012 titled The Fertility Implosion , be forewarned, his mood is … Continue reading →

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12582     What is curious in Mr. James Klagge’s book Wittgenstein in Exile is that he explores very thoroughly the notion of exile as the master idea in the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein, but he leaves utterly and inexplicably … Continue reading →

I know that you, like me, never miss the opportunity to read,even on the sly,The Daily Beast. My friend Tina Brown has rescued more failures than Abe Burrows (look it up on Wikipedia), or at the least she valiantly tried. … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/world/middleeast/iran-intelligence-crisis-s…   The World Hegemon declares itself the moral arbiter of who can or cannot build a nuclear weapon, while the painfully obvious empirical evidence that America has been the only nation to use such weapons, escapes the notice of … Continue reading →

OUT OF PRINT http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300080377 http://www.amazon.com/George-Santayana-Mr-Irving-Singer/dp/0300080379/ref=sr_…  

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