Thoughts on Mansfield
by Peter Lawler. . . and change and higher education by ME . . . . . Continue Reading »
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A BIG IDEA explained by ME on BIG THINK . . . . . . . Continue Reading »
So the Princeton conference was great. Carl was there for a day. I failed, though, in instructing him via BLACKBERRY on the science of linking. So Carl: Go to the Edit Post page. See the link link (in blue above). Click on it. Enter the url through pasting into the link thing that comes up. Click . . . . Continue Reading »
I have to give a talk at the Madison Center on Princeton on Monday as part of a panel on Locke. Here are some quick thoughts, based on Jim’s fine review in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. . . . . Continue Reading »
Friends of Mine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON-F0i69_8k is a song in which the narrator has an appreciative yet ultimately ambivalent attitude towards marriage, and towards pairing off more generally. Officially, that is, judged by the meaning of the lyrics alone, it is a . . . . Continue Reading »
The songs that make up Odyssey and Oracle could be analyzed in two ways. First, we could interpret them as distinct songs only superficially or incidentally linked in lyrical contentand then wed say a lot more about which of the two Zombie songwriters, Rod Argent or Chris White, penned . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . is pretty darn weak. And there’s no way in heck he could be elected. Nonetheless, we read in VOEGELI’s great book that he and Bill Clinton were on the cusp of entitlement reform we could have believed in when the Monica scandal broke. So there would be something to be said for a . . . . Continue Reading »
He’s not about the ideas, he’s about branding . . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s the link that I screwed up below on Gray death and so forth. To continue Carl’s musings below: I guess I would vote for Gingrich over Obama. But Gingrich is a jerk in obvious ways who hasn’t worked for more than a decade. He wouldn’t have a chance in heck. Too . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t want to have to do either, but 1) I would vote for Gingrich over Obama (and with reasonable hope that he could turn out to be a pretty good president, and not simply the vehicle for rejecting Obama). 2) I would vote for Palin over Obama (and with ditto). They are about as equally . . . . Continue Reading »
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