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Is Silicon Valley Racist?
In one of those remarkable ironic coincidences, I found myself reading Violet Blue’s latest post to her Pulp Tech blog on ZDNet, “Silicon Valley’s Race Problem,” shortly after I began reading Michael Tomasky’s latest contribution to The New...
Trying to Explain Obama’s Failures (and Why They are Likely to Continue)
In his review of Adam Phillips’ On Balance for The New York Review, Michael Greenberg cites a perspective on liberalism that may do much to explain why Barack Obama’s attempts to deal with the Republican Party have amounted to little more than...
Social Theory And Semantics
The first thing that struck me about “A New Approach to the Holocaust,” Timothy Snyder’s latest piece for The New York Review, was his attention to a subtlety of the German language. He observed that the noun Politik (incorporated in the compound...
Cincinnatti Am Ohioflusse?
Those who may wonder why it is so difficult for me in invoke the name of Sarah Palin without using some variant of “demagogue” in the same sentence would do well to take a look at how Book TV decided to cover her book Going Rogue. In the...
France Takes a Stand on Digitization
In the context of Robert Darnton’s efforts, in the latest issue of The New York Review, to make sense out of the legal muddle over the digitization plans behind the Google Book Search effort, yesterday’s news from Paris, as reported by...
A Calculus of Social Value?
I have been reading with great fascination Tony Judt’s article in the latest issue of The New York Review on why the very concept of social democracy appears to be off the map whenever our government undertakes any effort towards reform, particularly...
The Decade of Fragility?
Through their Magazine the BBC is trying to compile a summing up of the first decade of the 21st century by polling their readers to “tell the story of the last 10 years, based on five themes.” Personally, I tend to prefer the single unifying...
Disadvantage Pornography
Presumably, the title of Jonathan Raban’s piece about the photographs of Dorothea Lange for the New York Review was entitled “American Pastoral” because, as his point of departure, he invokes William Empson’s Some Versions of...
