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41581 queers -- rank: 1000

John St. Clair wrote: >I'm unsure what to make of what you mean by "being against the queers." If >you're asking if Rorty is homophobic, then I think the answer is no. If >you're asking would he object to certain forms of essentialist queer >identity-theory, then the answer is probably yes. But let's not confuse >identity politics with the politics of identity-theory. No, I don't think he's homophobic, but, and I admit I've read very little of his stuff, my sense is that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 24 15:42:07 PDT 1998

41582 supplement -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >John St. Clair wrote: > >>Doug, I know you're not a philosopher, but have you *read* Rorty? I mean, if >>you're making the claim that he's *against* Derrida, I couldn't agree with >>you. Take a look at, for example: > >Ok, then it's just the queers I guess. And, answering myself, I should add that I bet that American purity thinking is behind Alterman and other vulgar versions of antipostmodernism. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 24 13:28:15 PDT 1998

41583 Alterman and Rorty (was "Re: Some of what Alterman said) -- rank: 1000

John St. Clair wrote: >Doug, I know you're not a philosopher, but have you *read* Rorty? I mean, if >you're making the claim that he's *against* Derrida, I couldn't agree with >you. Take a look at, for example: Ok, then it's just the queers I guess. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 24 13:22:13 PDT 1998

41584 Alterman and Rorty (was "Re: Some of what Alterman said) -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >The two are virtually indistinguishable. Is this just standard liberal >doctrine? Isn't this just one more attempt (by Rorty on the high end and Alterman on the low) to assert some pragmatic, pure native strain Americanism, against all that decadent and foreign stuff going on in the humanities departments? In the 50s it was Marxists; in the 90s it's Derrideans and queers. It's insulting to drag Whitman into this agenda. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 24 12:25:05 PDT 1998

41585 Identity politics -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >But what stayed with me were the last three paragraphs: > > "But here's the twist. [Reformist Social-Democratic > Leftist Nelson] Lichtenstein is part of a perfectly > Rortyite reformist Campaign for a Living Wage at > the University of Virginia. This campaign is not > about ending sexism, racism, or homophobia, but > about getting janitorial staff a few extra bucks > an hour. Who are its volunteers? Primarily, says > Lichtenstein, faculty ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 24 11:48:14 PDT 1998

41586 Identity politics -- rank: 1000

Les Schaffer wrote: >okay. okay. i can't stand the suspense anymore. > >Will __someone__ please tell the rest of us what this alterman guy >said, so we can judge it for ourselves on its (de)merits. Unfortunately, The Nation didn't put Alterman's column up on their website, nor did they post Katha Pollitt's excellent column in the new issue that responds to it. Since most Nation subscribers won't get their issues for a few more days, a couple of typed excerpts from Pollitt's column (I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 24 11:27:30 PDT 1998

41587 Laughter on the Left? -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >But I would argue that Leftist, subversive, genuinely progressive humor >really is qualitatively different from Rightwing humor. Lots of lefties have problems with humor, I think, because of the large helping of aggression it often disguises. The right, obviously, has no such problems - like this fellow.... >Buchanan's stupidity is the stupidity of our entire mass-culture Buchanan isn't stupid, not at all. He's a brilliant polemicist, who can turn a phrase and k ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 24 11:02:12 PDT 1998

41588 Identity politics -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >As this speaks to this list's concern with identity politics, I am >forwarding a letter I sent to Nation. >Yours, rb > >Eric Alterman's banal reflections (May 25) on divisions in the left are >confused as well[....] Please note that this piece was the first salvo of Alterman's new column. He really went out of his way to pick a fight, didn't he? The Nation should be trying to end this idiotic war, not promote it. Outbursts like Alterman's give the Le ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 23 11:05:43 PDT 1998

41589 Statements on Suharto Resignation -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Does anyone know what's happened to Sukarno's daughter in this? >Wasn't she the progressive leader of the extraparliamentary opposition? Jeff Winters, my guru on Indonesia whom I interviewed the other night for the radio, says she's virtually invisible. The opposition movement, such as it is, has no leadership and no program. They seem to have fractured for now, now that Suharto is out of office, though not necessarily out of power. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 23 07:57:58 PDT 1998

41590 Slate screams politics! -- rank: 1000

Now here's an objective take on things, from the Microsoft-owned Slate. For some reason I paid to subscribe to this thing. >Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 09:51:30 -0700 (PDT) >From: Slate Magazine <delivery at slate.com> >To: slate-announce at microsoft.nwnet.com >Subject: SLATE News - May 22, 1998 >Sender: slate-announce-owner at microsoft.nwnet.com >Precedence: bulk > >May 22, 1998 > >Dear Reader, > >State attorneys general are everywhere: They're suing Micro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 22 11:26:17 PDT 1998

41591 Financial times -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >could you send the financial times letter to the list, or at least to me? Damn, I misaddressed another email. This is getting embarrassing. Anyway, in thorough violation of IP laws... Doug ---- Key Microsoft question is whether it profits from ideas of others 05-21-1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >From Mr Bruce Page. Sir, There is much talk of "innovation" in the context of the US Justice Departmen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 22 09:32:00 PDT 1998

41592 Historical Society -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman asked why progressives Martin Sklar and Sean Wilentz joined Eugene Genovese's new Historical Society. I asked a historian friend of mine who's been following EG's rightward move (the "Adele" addressed in yesterday's missent query). She said she didn't know about Sklar, but Wilentz has become a neocon, spouting angry white man rhetoric in The New Republic. Speaking of TNR, rumor was that Wilentz was on the short list of possible editors for that plagiarism- and fiction- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 22 09:18:40 PDT 1998

41593 More on Moore (& ........) -- rank: 1000

Nicholas Garbis wrote: >as far as getting the full text of what has been said so far, i believe >somebody will have to email you those older messages. That's been done, so Michael Moore is now the beneficiary of our great collective wisdom. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 22 08:43:53 PDT 1998

41594 humor -- rank: 1000

Mike - >how can i read this discussion taking place? can you e-mail me some of it?? Already done. >didn't know you were there the other night. I was up front, actually, wearing my only tie. >i had hoped the event was going to >be a bunch of corporate honchos taking me on but it was something less than >that... No kidding. They were barely coherent, most of them, and I don't think it was just the Remy at work. >my comments about microsoft... i was just speaking off the cuff, hav ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 22 08:39:55 PDT 1998

41595 The Tax that Dare Not Speak... -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >What is it? Just a preliminary label of 10 words or so. I didn't ask for >an understanding of it. I asked for a semi-intelligible label of what it >is that is to be understood. If it can't even be named to non-economists >that haven't heard of it before, then..... A Tobin tax is a levy on financial transactions, most typically those in foreign exchange. The most common figure is around 0.5% of the value of the trade. It's designed at least as much to slow trading ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 22 07:47:52 PDT 1998