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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Brooklyn Jewish Troubadours
In Tablet (“A New Read on Jewish Life”), Lee Smith writes “How Delmore Schwartz Saved My Life: Or at least kept Lou Reed from punching me at a dinner party“): The American poets who captured this paradox best—Schwartz and other … Continue reading
RoP Gettin’ Busy
Another week in Islam’s infinite war against Christianity. In Kenya, al-Shabaab targeted non-Muslims (which, in a country that is 83% Christian, is another way of saying ‘Christian’): A large explosion late Sunday rocked an upscale Kenyan mall a day after … Continue reading
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Jack Donaghy Says…
To Liz Lemon: “You’re New York third-wave feminist, college-educationed, single-and-pretending-to-be-happy-about-it, over-scheduled, undersexed. You buy any magazine that says ‘healthy body image’ on the cover and every two years you take up knitting for … a week.”
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Boko Haram
Muslims in Africa doing what they do best: At least 87 people have been killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state, according to local officials. Disguised in military uniforms, the militants set up checkpoints … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, International, Islam
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Gottfried, Strauss, and Jewish Ethnocentrism
The excellent Paul Gottfried, a retired professor of humanities, is that most rare specimen in intelligentsia: a jew who is honest and forthright about jewish ethnocentrism and its historical suppression of Protestant ethnocentrism. Having written the recent book Leo Strauss … Continue reading
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Marshall Berman: Interpreter of “Urban Life”
With respect to the stereotype of the jewish-NYC-leftwing-intellectual, this obituary of one Marshall Berman is about as ideal-type as you can get: ‘In a sweat, melting, shedding clothes and tears, flashing hot and cold.” This was how Marshall Berman described … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Marxism, Jewish
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Giraffe Manor
From this article on “18 Unique Hotels From Around the World“, two that really impressed me are in Kenya. Giraffe Manor, Kenya: Sarova Saltlick Game Lodge, Kenya:
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Difficult Men: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad
Theo Tait reviews Brett Martin’s book Difficult Men: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad: Brett Martin’s Difficult Men does for the outstanding American TV dramas of recent years what Peter Biskind‘s Easy Riders, Raging … Continue reading
Tallis on Nagel
Raymond Tallis provides a good overview of the important contributions Thomas Nagel brings to philosophy of mind, a discipline largely dominated by reductive materialists.
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Syrian Rebels
Two stories from today. Notice a pattern? Islamists’ rise in Syria undercuts Kerry’s claim they play minor role Al-Qaeda-linked fighters seize Syrian town of Azaz from more moderate rebels
Posted in International, Islam, Middle East
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