Categories Archives: Commentary

Renegade — Henry Miller and the Making of ‘Tropic of Cancer.’ — Why do men revel in the degradation of women?

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Renegade — Henry Miller and the Making of ‘Tropic of Cancer.’   Why do men revel in the degradation of women? Jeannette Winterson’s review of Frederick Turner’s book on Henry Miller ends with a question that is seldom discussed in the bounds of polite society.  Why do men revel in the degradation of women?  I can [...]

Willard “Mittens” Romney is a Plutomaniac

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/opinion/brooks-the-wealth-issue.html?ref=opinion When I was a scholarship student in prep school I remember seeing a lower form student emerge from his parent’s top line Benz wearing a luxurious fur coat that would probably fit him for a season or two. I wasn’t jealous or envious of him, but I did despise him because he had such [...]

Another Comment Censored by the NYTimes – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com

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Opportunity Is More Important Than Economic Mobility – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com. As a dogmatist for the Heritage Foundation, your solutions sound like talking points from the G.O.P. that your institution probably wrote. What is this “double taxation of savings” for instance? The only tax on savings is that on dividends and earned interest [...]

Charlie Rose – Rep. Barney Frank

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Charlie Rose – Rep. Barney Frank. You really tipped your hand, Mr. Rose, in that fight with the Congressman over the private sector doing it better. The private sector is no better at doing things than government is, and this has been proven time after time. Look at the way the private sector wasted billions [...]

Tenure’s Dirty Little Secret – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Tenure’s Dirty Little Secret – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education. I notice Milton Greenberg does not refer to the infamous letter of Lewis Powell, the former Supreme Court Justice regarding the threat to Capitalism represented by the counterculture, certain university departments and a number of tenured scholars. What a joke that prediction turned [...]

Comment on David Brooks, Midlife Crisis Economics

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/opinion/brooks-midlife-crisis-economics.html The type of big government is exactly the question I would address. The type that claims the right to torture and murder its own citizens without due process of law, to violate its own Bill of Rights, is one of which I would rightfully be more afraid than the most insidious of corporations. It [...]

Comments on Stanley Fish, The Old Order Changeth

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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/the-old-order-changeth/ The Digital Humanities, come to save us all. What, exactly, are they anyway? The semiotics of tweets? Facebook walls as literature? Flash fiction? The six word story? The opinions of the willfully ignorant as expressed in the comments of Yahoo.com?  Can we not get back to reading texts as primarily historical documents that tell us [...]

Don’t Tax the Rich?

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Tax inequality?Ian Ayres of Yale and Aaron Edlin of Berkeley presented an innovative tax proposal in today’s NYTimes. It’s an interesting idea, one designed to use the tax system to cap income inequality, but to cap it at the rate of thirty six times the median does not go far enough to ameliorate our situation. [...]