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• Vengeance Is Mine

  
  The Opinionator — Authority: 744
  "Revenge and avenge" films continue to raise the question of violences relationship to morality.
  22 hours ago

• Tis the Season

  
  The Opinionator — Authority: 744
  Sometimes it seems as if enough can never be enough, especially at this time of year.
  1 week ago

• Sarah Palin and the Truth of Autobiography

  
  The Opinionator — Authority: 744
  Readers reactions to a column on Sarah Palins memoir raise interesting questions about the nature of autobiography.
  2 weeks ago

• “Je m’en Foucault!”

  
  History of Economics Playground — Authority: 109
  French philosopher with scant recognition in his home country My dear friend Katy is annoyed. For a few months, she’s been teaching French at Wesleyan University, Connecticut, while writing her master thesis for a French faculty. Every time she shows up at a literary theory class, the Professor expects her to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Odds and ends for 12/9

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 479
  The seat’s hot and he ain’t even in it yet: Bank of America’s chief risk officer, Greg Curl, considered a leading candidate to succeed Ken Lewis as CEO, is under investigation by the New York attorney general for his role in what BofA shareholders were and weren’t told about the bank’s acquisition of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Readers Shocked That NYT Would Dare Lend Credence to Going Rogue

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 816
  New York Times readers were treated to a rare dose of sympathy for Sarah Palin and her new book yesterday. Columnist Stanley Fish reviewed "Going Rogue", and cast it in a generally appealing light, while dispelling some of the most trumpeted criticisms of the former Alaska Governors autobiography. Fish introduces his ...
  3 weeks ago

• "Are You Kidding Me?" Quote of the Day

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 140
  I find the voice undeniably authentic (yes, I know the book was written “with the help” of Lynn Vincent, but many books, including my most recent one, are put together by an editor). It is the voice of small-town America, with its folk wisdom, regional pride, common sense, distrust of rhetoric (itself a rhetorical ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lots of Tuesday Links

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 145
  * Steve Benen has another post with more details on the new health care compromise. There’s also more health care coverage from Atul Gawande in the New Yorker this week. * TPM uncovers something rather interesting in its reporting on the independent investigation stemming from those ACORN videos: The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Stanley Fish finds Sarah Palins book "compelling and very well done."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 719
  Unlike compulsive Sarah haters — like Andrew Sullivan and Michelle Goldberg —  Fish looks at the book as the form of literature it is, an autobiography: [W]hile autobiographers certainly insist that they are telling the truth, the truth the genre promises is the truth about themselves — the kind of persons ...
  3 weeks ago

• Reading Stanley Fish so you dont have to...

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 676
  Va at Whiskey Fire : I confess I anticipated the possibility that Fish would review Going Rogue , as he has fashioned himself in his Times blog into a more loquacious Ann Althouse, but I hoped it wouldnt be quite like this. But now, there it is, indelibly posted on Stanley Fishs blog forever, daring me to believe ...
  3 weeks ago

• Surprise! A positive NY Times review for Going Rogue

  
  Texas for Sarah Palin — Authority: 576
  Granted its on the Times "Opinionator" blog,not in the print edition, but its so rare to see anyone associated with The Times that comes to praise Sarah Palin, not bury her. The reviewer is Stanley Fish, an academic and the author of no less than eleven books of his own. Here are a few snippets from his review : ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sarah Palin is Coming to Town

  
  The Opinionator — Authority: 744
  The real surprise about Sarah Palins autobiography.
  3 weeks ago

• Views On Political Correctness In Higher Education

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 438
  In the opening sentence of a key chapter in his new book on the academy, “ No University Is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom ,” Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors and a self-identified leftist, makes an important, and conciliatory, point: “Although few students or ...
  4 weeks ago

• Political Correctness Revisited: Views From Both Sides

  
  The Opinionator — Authority: 744
  Two recent books give hope for a reasonable debate on political speech in the university.
  4 weeks ago

• 10 annoying phrases that serve absolutely no purpose

  
  Asylum Australia — Authority: 145
  Filed under: Humour We, at Asylum, are becoming increasingly aggrieved by more a class of horrible phrases that serve no purpose. The ones which are as unnecessary as they are insufferable. Not only do statements like "no offense" and "whatever" grate on the ear, they ... Read more   Permalink  |  Email ...
  5 weeks ago

• And the Winner: No Problem

  
  The Opinionator — Authority: 744
  A look at some of the readers responses to a column about current expressions that drive us up a wall.
  5 weeks ago

• 10 annoying phrases that serve absolutely no purpose

  
  Asylum.co.uk — Authority: 538
  Filed under: Humour We, at Asylum, are becoming increasingly aggrieved by more a class of horrible phrases that serve no purpose. The ones which are as unnecessary as they are insufferable. Not only do statements like "no offense" and "whatever" grate on the ear, they ... Read more   Permalink  |  Email ...
  5 weeks ago

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