Showing posts with label Cultural Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cultural Politics. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Kim Stanley Robinson's THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE: A Review

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 ...by me, but not here; it's at The Ancillary Review of Books , and you can read it here: https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2021/01/20...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

TWO IMPORTANT LANGUAGE NOTES

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1) The proper English term for the Jewish celebrations in early adolescence is hereby termed "b'mitzvah" (both singular and pl...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Recursive Conspiracy Theories

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From Justin Gills at the New York Times ( via ): Dr. Lewandowsky’s survey results suggested that people who rejected climate science wer...
Saturday, October 13, 2012

Surprises in Rereading Classic Children's Literature: Kipling's Just So Stories edition

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Content warning : this post quotes a book using two extremely offensive racial slurs. So I took Joseph (now at the ripe old age of 3 and ...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Can We Have An Update on the Acutal Work of Art, Please?

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Apparently Andres Serrano's long-controversial photograph Immersion (Piss Christ) has been destroyed (some news reports have "dam...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Leaping from Death by Fire to Certain Death Below: Two New York Tragedies

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Today is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: you can read about it here , talk about it in this thread , or liste...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Happy to Oblige

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The world Parker actually wants... is merely a world in which one can walk down an average city street and not be confronted by a 4-year-old...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Some Arguments Are Self-Refuting: Roman Polanski Edition

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Robert Harris, from his op-ed in today's NY Times defending Roman Polanski : Of course what happened cannot be excused, either legally o...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

On Kirby, Marvel, Copyright and Moral Claims: Scattered Thoughts

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Thoughts on the copyright reclamation by the heirs of Jack Kirby, sparked by this post by Alan David Duane . (In reading the below, remember...
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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Cultural Continuity

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Jeff Lacks, a political scientist who teaches at Columbia, writes ( via ): If policy were set by state-by-state majorities of those 65 or o...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009

And Then There Were Four

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Vermont just became -- along with Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa -- the fourth state in our union to allow marriage on a non-discrimina...
Thursday, October 23, 2008

Compare and Contrast

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No one voted for me in the 1964 Presidential primary who is anti-Negro. I am not myself, and I ran no such campaign, nor have I ever run a ...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

Some Religious Ideas Are Subject to Scientific Investigation

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Musings prompted by, but only tangentially related to, the Michael Reiss affair . There's a longstanding notion that religious ideas are...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

A Poem for California's Equal Marriage Day

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remove...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

The Insidious Plan of Liberals to Undermine Our Best Defense in the War on Terror Unveiled At Last

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As a defense of it accurately says, everyone is ridiculing Mary Grabar's latest column at Townhall , largely on the basis of its first ...
Thursday, January 10, 2008

Refuting a Dangerous Piece of Pseudo-History

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A long time ago by web standards -- y'know, last year! -- I argued that Jonah Goldberg's new book "Liberal Fascism" may be...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Why My Laughter at Jonah Goldberg's Risible Book Rings Hollow

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Jonah Goldberg's book Liberal Fascists is now out, and various left-wing blogs -- especially Sadly, No! , which is definitely the g...
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Monday, December 17, 2007

A Liberal Society Must Tolerate Proselytizers -- Even if They're Atheists

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Matt Ygelsias links to an essay by Damon Linker in the New Republic about the so-called "New Atheists" -- "Dawkins, Dennett...
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