Category Archives for academics
“Are Obama’s Friends Fair Game?”
TweetBari Weiss, WSJ: It’s not every presidential election that American voters are introduced to characters like former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers or Middle East historian Rashid Khalidi — both of whom, we have learned, Barack Obama worked and socialized with … Continue reading
“If it redistributes like a duck …”
TweetDavid Harsanyi, The Denver Post: Barack Obama is going to fix the economy by “spreading the wealth around”? Now, I’m not attempting to demonize Obama, God forbid. It’s just that, as we all know, that’s what Obama told Joe the … Continue reading
Provocateurism, 7
TweetIn a way it was predictable — and I won’t deny that, on some level, I probably knew the issue would be broached — but yesterday’s post in the provocateurism series wended its way, in exchanges between author and commenters … Continue reading
Provocateurism, 6
TweetLongtime readers of this site have frequently encountered arguments in which I fasten identity politics to a form of soft, progressivist totalitarianism “PC” speech (which, we are often told with a wave of the hand and a gourmands’ sniff, is, … Continue reading
Everything old is new again: peace studies and the “new reality”
TweetDavid Thompson, on False Consciousness and the modern “peace studies” movement led by Norwegian Marxist and professor Johann Galtung: Galtung is the founder of the “peace universityâ€Â, Transcend, which stresses “a new reality†in conflict resolution and reporting – one … Continue reading
About the author — interpretation, intention, and the "historical" agency
TweetAn interesting juxtaposition on “journalistic disclosure” from today’s Rocky Mountain News, which excerpts competing views from the National Journal’s William Powers and CBSNews’ Brian Montopoli. First, here’s Powers, who, it’s fair to say, believes journalistic outlets should provide their readerships … Continue reading
Knight of the Living Dead
TweetFrom the BBC, “Iran condemns Rushdie knighthood”: His book The Satanic Verses offended Muslims worldwide and led to Iran issuing a fatwa in 1989, ordering Sir Salman’s execution. Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said the decision to praise … Continue reading
a post that mimics an actual blog post, even as it's meant (meta-secretly) to test certain Word Press functions
TweetFrom the AP: District Attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred Saturday for his “selfish” rape prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse players – a politically motivated act, his judges said, that he inexplicably allowed to fester for months after it was … Continue reading
On Dr Andrew ("Thersites") Haggerty, Community College Professor (UPDATED and UPDATED AGAIN)
Tweet[I’m posting this update here, because I wish it to be stated up front. It has come to my attention that Dr Haggerty wrote the following on his site with respect to our debate on interpretation and how it works: … Continue reading
in which I spend my morning correcting a number of remarkably self-satisfied “academics” who, quite frankly, have no idea what they are talking about
TweetNot really what I wanted to be doing this morning—and I only have 25 minutes to do it, because I’ve just taken my Gaspari SuperPump 250, and that powdered supplement is a tough taskmaster, demanding of me a certain timeliness … Continue reading
