Kerouac: “Man. This really ain’t so cool.”
July 19, 2005
July 19, 2005
If instead of going On The Road, famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac spent the early 1950s working as a South Carolina field hand
July 19, 2005
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being (Republican)
The New York Times’ Bob Herbert is unimpressed with Republican Party Chair Ken Mehlman’s address to the NAACP. Writing of the event, Herbert characterizes it thus: One of President Bush’s surrogates went before the N.A.A.C.P. last week and apologized for the Republican Party’s reprehensible, decades-long Southern strategy. The surrogate, Ken Mehlman, is chairman of the Republican National Committee. Perhaps he meant well. But his words were worse than meaningless. They
July 19, 2005
Preparing for Battle
Byron York, writing at the Corner, notes: There has been a brisk traffic today in buying web addresses that could be used to oppose Edith Brown Clement, were she to become the new Supreme Court nominee. The addresses opposeclement.org and supportclement.org were both purchased by the anti-Bush Leadership Conference on Civil Rights today—allowing the group to simultaneously oppose Clement and stop her supporters from using the pro-Clement address. Another address,
July 19, 2005
In which I discuss hermeneutics with a leftover steamed dumpling from last night’s dim sum meal, 4
steamed dumpling: “In a New York Times op-ed this morning, Stanley Fish makes the intentionalist argument that the ‘textualist’ approach to interpretation favored by justices like Antonin Scalia is incoherent, noting that ‘textualists insist that what an interpreter seeks to establish is the meaning of the text as it exists apart from anyone’s intention’—that, from Scalia’s perspective, what’s important is ‘what is “said,” not what is “meant,”’—an empty gesture, in