Aug 17 2011
Dear Yankee By Paul Burk, August 2011 … Here we go again. As you know, Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, is contemplating a presidential run, which means that any day now, your boss will be sending you down here to take the measure of the man. Though he managed to avoid the 2012 spotlight …
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Aug 17 2011
Mr. Mileikowsky and the “seal of Netanyahu”: the perilous encounter between modern nationalism and ancient history By Hussein Ibish, August 17, 2011, 6:21pm … I may be trying people’s patience a little with my recent riff on nationalism in general, and particularly the Israeli and Palestinian versions, but further exchanges with some of my interlocutors, …
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Aug 16 2011
The sad facts behind Rick Perry’s Texas miracle By Harold Meyerson, Tuesday, August 16, 6:41 PM … Rick Perry’s Texas is Ross Perot’s Mexico come north. Through a range of enticements we more commonly associate with Third World nations — low wages, no benefits, high rates of poverty, scant taxes, few regulations and generous corporate …
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Aug 16 2011
Teavangelicals: in capitalism and free markets they trust By Anthea Butler, Monday 15 August 2011 12.21 BST … Charles Finney, the great 19th-century revivalist and evangelical, would have had a hard time preaching a revival in America today. Finney’s brand of evangelical fervour, called the “new measures”, emphasised saving souls and reviving worship by incorporating …
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Aug 16 2011
Fetishizing nationalism By Hussein Ibish, August 16, 2011 … For those in the grip of its authority, a clearheaded understanding of how nationalist ideology actually operates seems extremely difficult. All contemporary nationalisms are based on constructed and imagined narratives about history, geography, culture, ethnicity and religion. Such narratives invariably involve a great deal of what …
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Aug 14 2011
Norway’s terror, the world’s problem By Gerald Caplan, Saturday, August 13, 2011 12:32PM EDT … There are several things we must grasp if we’re ever going to understand what motivated Anders Breivik’s murderous rampage in Norway. As is well known now, Mr. Breivik was a devotee of those many strident voices on the web who …
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Aug 14 2011
Everyone began rasping like zombies in my Bikram yoga class By Harriet Walker, Sunday, 14 August 2011 … I might as well tell you, seeing as I’ve bragged about it to everyone else, that I’ve taken up Bikram yoga. It’s a variant of the old-lady yoga that everyone professes to be good at, but is …
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