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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/opinion/brooks-the-planning-fallacy.html?_r=1&hp It is easy to imagine that at breakfast tables, lunch rooms , dinner tables and even at swank dinner parties in the suburbs of the capitol, the political homilies of Mr. David Brooks are the subject of many conversations, … Continue reading →

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903999904576468011530847064.html Perhaps you thought that the Right Wing attack on the Academy had lost some of its steam, its power to accuse scholars, teachers and other academic figures of cultural, if not political subversion of the most heinous kind? The … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/opinion/if-it-feels-right.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Cockeyed Platonist (CP) is in a tizzy. Why you ask? The sky is falling? Hold on to your hats! The Younger Generation is going to the dogs, morally. (Does anyone remember Harold Hill?)  They don’t even know what morality … Continue reading →

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=24689 Although I agree with much of what Edward Said had to say about Walter Lippmann in his essay Grey Eminence, On Walter Lippmann, in Reflections on Exile.  Lippmann besides being The Establismentarian of  his or any other American generation, … Continue reading →

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/11/9-11-anniversary-what-george-bush-got-wrong-about-the-attacks.html Here is Cogitating Peter celebrating The American Wound, as if the suffering and death of Americans is deeply wrong, as opposed to the suffering and death of a category of beings designated as Other. Although the deaths of the … Continue reading →

http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/09/09/jackie_kennedy_on_mlk_oral_history_…/&wpisrc=newsletter_slatest Hi, its me Myra B. of HeddaAndLouellaAreDead.com. Just wanted to share with all my loyal readers the news that the incomparable Diane Sawyer, successor to another television icon Barbara Walters, will host a two hour special featuring Jackie Kennedy’s … Continue reading →

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/09/07/mission_accomplished_finally… “The long war provoked by the attacks of Sept. 11 is over.” Thus begins Mr. Ackerman’s argument for rethinking the outdated self-given permissions of the American Congress to wage war on our ‘attackers’ of September 11, 2001. Is it … Continue reading →

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I finished Age of Fracture almost a week ago and decided that I would give some time to let my thoughts on this book coalese, but the further I got from that point in readerly time the more distant my … Continue reading →

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