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I have just purchased Thinking the Impossible from Oxford University Press. I’m going to start reading it after I finish the three books I am currently reading. Christopher Bray in his witty and intelligent review make me want to put aside all those other books and immediately take up with my new intellectual infatuation, but I leave too many of my past infatuations, for new more exciting intellectual engagements: it is a very bad habit. Probably indicative of intellectual shallowness. The talk of Derrida reminds me of an essay of Richard Rorty’s in the Consequences of Pragmatism called Philosophy as a Kind of Writing:An Essay on Derrida, it is a long defense of Derrida, as a new kind of thinker/writer. But after having read Philosophy and Social Hope, one of his latter collections of essays, and for me Rorty became a writer of elegant, witty, playful literary essays about philosophy without denigrating the power of his thought, in any way: making him assessable like his great intellectual and literary precursor William James.My point being, that we might interpret the essay on Derrida as in fact a literary aspiration, even a self-description.

Union Labor News / 2009 / July / Article 

How Deregulation Caused Great Recession

Making Sense of the Meltdown – Third in a Series on the Economic Crisis

By Sachin Chheda, Director, Wisconsin Fair Trade Coalition

In his essay, “A Call to Arms,” Harvey Rosenfield lays out how Wall Street spent more than $5 billion in campaign contributions and on lobbying in order to get Congress to deregulate the economy which led to the current economic meltdown. The essay, which serves as introduction to the report “How Wall Street Sold Out Main Street” (available at www.wallstreetwatch. org), explains in excruciating detail the step-by-step deregulation pursued by big banks and conservative ideologues, and how middle-class taxpayers and families have been, and are, paying the price. Continue reading →