American scholar Judith Butler has won a philosophy award, the Theodor Adorno Prize, upsetting Jewish groups who don’t want to see the Nazi refugee Adorno’s name associated with Ms. Butler. Per Ahram Online, which aggregated several news reports from around the world, a group of German scholars said, “Someone who boycotts Israel can’t be Read More
The hardest thing for me to write in the last couple weeks was a bit I did on Jewish superiority. I was pleased to see I got some positive comments, including this from JooToo:
Reuters reports that President Bush is about to announce Ben Bernanke, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors as Alan Greenspan’s replacement.
His resume doesn’t look quite like Harriet Miers’, and Brad DeLong, Berkeley economist who worked for Clinton, likes the appointment.
At some point during last year’s Presidential campaign, several donkey watchers wondered aloud how the party of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy became the party of Michael Moore.
This, of course, was at the height of the hype over Mr. Moore’s film, Fahrenheit 9/11, and not long after he praised Read More
The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters , by Wendy Lesser. Pantheon Books, 274 pages, $24.
I dislike autobiography, and that includes this sentence.
The tide, though, is too strong for the lonely swimmer. Everybody–sturdy “he,” settled “she,” coy “you,” pompous “one”–all are swept into the vast solipsistic sea of personal history. “I” is Read More
