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Bulletin Board Today is the National Day of Unplugging — although if you’re reading this, you’re not unplugged Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Stop Defending the Humanities (“This negative stereotyping [the ‘liberal intellectual’takes wing, in part, from the sense that humanities academics and the students whom they send into the professions acquire their privilege […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Life after Guantanamo prison (“I stopped strangers on the street in Kabul and other provinces of Afghanistan to ask if they had heard of Manhattan or the World Trade Centre. Few of them had. But all of them knew about Guantanamo.”) An Unthinkably Modern Miracle (“Like poverty or […] Bulletin Board Beware, today is the Viking apocalypse (not the NFL team, where the apocalypse has been ongoing) Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes I Pledge Allegiance To The Pledge Of Allegiance (“Much as I love the words, meanings and traditions of our Pledge of Allegiance, I think reciting it at a time and place […] Can you tell February demolishes my motivation? This is the third post of the month, all of which have been a Weekend Edition. Despite how short it is, it always feels long. Actual posts on the horizon, though. “You Hate It That Much?” Blog Headline of the Week B&N Fires Nook Hardware Engineers, Stock Jumps […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes The Case for Socialized Law? (“It must be that, in the eyes of the law, there is no difference between rich and poor. If the rich have more rights—if they have fuller status as citizens—then by definition everyone else has fewer rights and lesser status.”) Eleanor Catton on […] |
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