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June 27, 2010
A Honeycomb Skin
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June 26, 2010
Blogbudsmen
TNR has a new blog staffed by Jim Manzi and Michael Kazin intent on critiquing TNR content from the right and the left. Yglesias worries about "punch-pulling" and "commenting on the not-comment-worthy." Chait defends the project:
The point is to give our readers the benefit of smartrebuttals, and in turn to force our writers to operate under thediscipline of knowing that we can't offer a poorly-constructed argumentwithout risking this being pointed out to our readers. That's adifferent kind...
Mental Health Break
"A non-sense escalator animation by Misterkama":
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Why Would A Former Slave Praise Slavery?
TNC posts on "Clara Davis, circa 1937, waxing nostalgic about her days of bondage in Alabama." Dreher adds:
It shocks our senses to encounter a former slave praising slavery,but it's not that hard to understand, if you think about it. Why dosome people in, say, the former East Germany pine for life undercommunist dictatorship, which was a kind of slavery? Because they missthe sense of security it provided. Yes, you were miserable, but so waseverybody else you knew, so in that sense, you knew...
Dealing With An "Orgy Of Self-Ingulgence"
Judith Warner presents a dyspeptic view of our culture in the wake of deregulatory disasters like the housing crash and the BP spill:
Under normal circumstances, the emotional,reward-seeking, selfish, "myopic" part of our brain is checked andbalanced in its desirous cravings by our powers of cognition — ourawareness of the consequences, say, of eating too much or spending toomuch. But after decades of never-before-seen levels of affluence andendless messages promoting instant gratification...
The VFYW Contest: Where Is That Window?
This photo was taken in late November. You have until noon on Tuesday to
guess it. Country first, then city and/or state. If no one guesses the
exact location, proximity counts. Be sure to email entries to
VFYWcontest@theatlantic.com, not the regular Dish account. Winner gets a free The View From Your Window book. Have at it.
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