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1771 [lbo-talk] Liberal hysteria and the Tea Party -- rank: 1000

On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:12 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > http://newpol.org/node/468 > > A forewarning: I may have overgeneralized a trend and one of the reader > comments on this piece was "we do this promising writer no favor by > publishing this piece." But I still stand by the main thrust of my argument > and, most importantly, its political implications. Well, the reader who made that comment is an idiot. You nailed it, comrade. Re: The Nation. Navasky thought of th ...

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1772 [lbo-talk] Dialogue with the Past (was Liberfals) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 10:46 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I don't believe decadence is a useful concept in understanding capitalism. I was talking about the persona of the bourgeois individual in the poetic canon that Bloom wrote about, and I dutifully followed in my days in lit crit. The voice of the high romantic era was bold, questing, and imperial; that of the 20th century heir turned it all inward in pure aesthetic play. Stevens' interior paramour; Ashbery's self-portrait in a convex mirror. But ...

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1773 [lbo-talk] Dialogue with the Past (was Liberfals) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > I > don't remember Bloom's book well enough to argue with > him, but the whole notion is starting to seem like > a Modernist predicament, back-projected onto earlier > writers. Bloom didn't put it this way, but it is about the bourgeois individual, from emergence through decadence. Doug

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1774 [lbo-talk] The rape of education continues -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 8:56 PM, // ravi wrote: > So that s how it s going to go down here on, eh? You and your newfound Hoover chums against us guys on the Internet. :-) My not-so-newfound Hoover apostate, talking about the colleagues she left behind!

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1775 [lbo-talk] The rape of education continues -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > Doug: "As his former colleague, Diane Ravitch, said, he knows nothing > of the real world - he lives in pure theory." > > > [WS:] I doubt. I think he is a paid stooge of the business class and > knows darn well what he is doing. Pure theory my ass. Every fucking > Nazi claimed that he "did not know" in Nuremberg. Ravitch actually knows these people. She was a colleague of his at Hoover. You are a guy on th ...

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1776 [lbo-talk] Dialogue with the Past (was Liberfals) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 6:44 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > I don't hear anxiety. I hear homage and gratitude. Do you believe everything people say? Especially about rivals?

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1777 [lbo-talk] Dialogue with the Past (was Liberfals) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Even Milton... not a particularly anxious > guy, I would have said. Of course not. He's the big strongman of the canon. It's the ephebes that are anxious. Doug

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1778 [lbo-talk] The rape of education continues -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 6:17 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > What I would like to see is research on what various teachers and local unions are doing or not doing in response to this attempt to pauperize one more sector of the working class. How long will it take for serious opposition to this attack to develop? What kinds of defensive tactics have already appeared anywhere? And so forth. For several decades all we've been able to do is report on and verbally blast each new horror. But there are signs of ...

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1779 [lbo-talk] Caroline Fourest: In Praise of Consent -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 4:48 PM, c b wrote: > In addition, childbirth procedures as well as the handling of the > infant in the first minutes, hours after birth, differ widely. By a > day or two (at most) after birth the baby is enmeshed in an ensemble > of social relations. > > It is the uterine environment which causes the fingerprints on the > left and right hands to differ. This is Lewontin's illustration of the > point Miles makes. CB is parting from his _own_ Marxist tra ...

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1780 [lbo-talk] Liberals -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Andy wrote: > http://anythingbutipod.com/ > > The Sandisk Clip+ is a fave of mine. Just enough device and no more. Funny. Why get something that looks great and has a masterful UI (our 5-year-old figured out how to use his nano all by himself) when you can maintain your non-Apple purity instead? Doug

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1781 [lbo-talk] The rape of education continues -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Yeah, you must be up against that one these days, > aren't you? It was bad enough when I was > trying to negotiate it -- my youngest > is 18, so the worst is over. I hope. > > It must be an unspeakable horrorshow these days. > As Bluto says in Animal House, You should be > drinking heavily right now. Liza has done most of the work, and she's done it ver well. (Ivan's going to a crunchy progressive public school, The Brook ...

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1782 [lbo-talk] The rape of education continues -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 3:22 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > Moe's idea that you could teach math with a computer instead of a teacher really pissed me off. This so-called expert knows nothing about mathematics and nothing about teaching it at any level. He is a neocon ideologue. Like Doug said, bad cop v. good cop. As his former colleague, Diane Ravitch, said, he knows nothing of the real world - he lives in pure theory. (He also has no idea how complicated the world of school choice is.) Which is funn ...

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1783 [lbo-talk] Liberals -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 2:33 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Yeah "Anxiety" was a problem for me. The idea that an artist was primarily in a dialog with other artists....rather than with his immediate audience...was kinda depressing. But true, I think. Bloom, though, would say that it's texts, not artists, that are in relation to each other.

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1784 [lbo-talk] Bashing NPR -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 12:54 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > I was once on Neal Conan's Talk of the Nation. We were discussing unions in general and > NAFTA in particular. Steven Greenhouse of the NYT was on too. Conan was such a condescending > asshole. Not to Greenhouse, of course, but to me. Of course, I bet Greenhouse's position wouldn't be all that different from yours, though he has to be very discreet. But since he works for the NYT, he gets a free pass from NPR. Doug

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1785 [lbo-talk] The rape of education continues -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > I have no doubt about the policy goals that you describe. But what > does the Joyce Foundation or other liberal do gooders have to do with > it? They the good cops, next to Terry Moe's bad cop. Doug

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