Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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The Online Film Critics Society's lists its "Top 100 Overlooked Films of the 1990s". By a casual scan, I've seen about half of these, and there's only one clinker on the list (the pretentious and overrated Darkman). Numbers 2 and 3 are the superlative Safe and The Sweet Herefater. (Thanks to kottke.org.) posted: 2:25:41 PM |
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Quite the day for thoughts political. Historian John Lukacs on the decline of "liberalism:"
To an increasing mass of Americans, "liberal" began to mean—rightly or
wrongly—a toleration, if not a promotion, of what many considered to
be immoralities. That the private lives and the moral behavior of many
self-professed conservatives hardly differed from those of their liberal
opponents mattered not, at least until now. What may matter in the future is
a division between conservatives who love liberty more than they hate
liberals and conservatives who
don't—or between conservatives who believe in patriotism and tradition
and other conservatives who believe in nationalism and technological
progress. But that is another matter.
(Thanks to Arts & Letters Daily.) posted: 10:25:03 AM |
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Scott Rosenberg cites George Rakoff's "How to Respond to Conservatives." Though the piece suffers at times from sesquipedalian excess (e.g., using "nurturant" and "interlocutor" in the same sentence), it's a good introduction to the idea of reframing an argument. And above all, it cautions against shrillness.
Remember once more that our goal is to unite our country behind our values,
the best of traditional American values. Right-wing ideologues need to
divide our country via a nasty cultural civil war. They need discord and
shouting and name-calling and put-downs. We win with civil discourse and
respectful cooperative conversation.
posted: 10:25:01 AM |
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