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http://www.versobooks.com/books/1023-the-impostor “How do we explain what Perry Anderson has called “the bizarre prominence of Bernard-Henri Lévy, far the best-known ‘thinker’ under sixty in the country? Anderson continues: “It would be difficult to imagine a more extraordinary reversal of national standards … Continue reading →

http://www.versobooks.com/books/797-intern-nation “The first no-holds-barred exposé of the exploitative and divisive world of internships. Every year, between one and two million Americans work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand newsrooms, congressional offices, and Hollywood studios, but they also … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/opinion/brooks-the-limits-of-empathy.html?ref=opinion I am currently reading Passion and Action: The Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy by Susan James. She devotes 294 pages to exploring emotions and their influence on seventeenth century philosophers.  Enter David Brooks into my world via The New York … Continue reading →

Ever since my escape from the Best Seller list of 1968, I've been trying to catch up on my movie watching because I believe that movies, or as the French say cinema,are the medium and the message, to riff on … Continue reading →

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/30/anwar-al-awlaki-and-why-president-barack-obama-is-right-to-kill-u-s-citizens.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_morning&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_morning&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/30/anwar-al-awlaki-killing-obama-must-explain-his-targeted-drone-policy.html Tina Brown at The Daily Beast attempts to provide a rather proscribed debate on the killing of Anwar al-Awalaki, for readers without a certain political sophistication and even the barest minimum of basic investigative skills. First is Mr. … Continue reading →

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-turley-civil-liberties-2… Thank you to Glenn Greenwald for the link to this very important editorial.    

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/brooks-the-lost-decade.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss           The Lost Decade is the latest intellectual entity to make for a cliché ridden column by Mr. Brooks. It is Plato with a heavy garnish of Hegel, not the most palatable repast.  But let us begin at the beginning.  … Continue reading →

Is Occupy Wall Street a harbinger of things to come? Social chaos is not good for business. So the mass arrests of protestors in New York City are probably not surprising. But the brutality of the police is being documented … Continue reading →

Excerpt from a letter dated October 25,1940 to Alexander Woollcott page 397: “…For while I want my friends to understand what I do, I have a fanatical conviction that columnists who undertake to interpret events should not regard themselves as … Continue reading →

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/fa9208f0-e480-11e0-92a3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1YppvW0CO   Is it my imagination or does Mr. Christopher Caldwell, in his latest essay at the Financial Times web site titled ‘The president just does not get the American centre’, dated September 23, 2011, seem to be suffering from … Continue reading →