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in thread "Unamericans in America":

I am skeptical of analyses that trace problems back to a specific campus discourse in the 2010s. I'll say something about that.... 5mo ago received

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I think part of the failure to approach consensus on this thread is down to a disagreement about what goals are being pursued through immigration. But nobody will articulate those goals... What is the project that's being undertaken? It's good to be honest... 4mo ago received

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in thread "The 4th American Dream":

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If I had to answer, and it had to be a book, and I couldn't name a collection of New England writing or sermons, then I would say Cotton Mather's Magnalia. But I'm not the right person to ask. 4mo ago received

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Why does North Korea produce the fastest and strongest men in the world?
I was curious tonight how different people would answer this question: Why, despite having a population of twenty-odd million—maybe a few million more, off the books—do North Korean weightlifters capture a decent share of titles and world records? The ... (www.youtube.com) posted 5mo ago with 5 replies received

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in thread "We can't keep living like this - murder of Iryna Zarutska":

It's not difficult to solve this problem. The state locates, as best they can, then incarcerates, treats, and houses violent schizophrenics. If a community is violent, then it can be put under strict supervision and lifted toward some level of modest prosp... 9mo ago received

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But that's a case of a concerned citizen unintentionally causing the death of a man. Still, he was found not guilty. If it hadn't gone down in Manhattan, if not for the racial angle, I don't know if charges would have been laid in the first place.... 9mo ago received

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It's not that I'm necessarily opposed to "shooting feral blacks." I'm skeptical. Even the police have had to be wary about that sort of thing for more than a few decades. You couldn't even beat the hell out them without a city getting torched. Extrajudicia... 9mo ago received

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I hope most men reading this would be able to move just fine through an inner city neighborhood. Situational awareness and knowledge that you can handle yourself, as well as a bit of charisma, should be enough. They should be able to adapt, at least. That'... 5mo ago received

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in thread "On American Political Aesthetics":

As for the first question, I think the answer would come from the ways that the United States hoped to resist its enemies, who believed in a particular sort of aestheticization of politics and politicization of aesthetics. I'm thinking of the Walter Benjam... 11mo ago received

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All right, leaving aside broader Western aesthetic decline and so on. I think you're right: "well-coordinated and aesthetically competent" definitely fits the first Obama administration. A great deal of his domestic and global appeal was built on re-aesthe... 11mo ago received

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I think it works. It's an extreme riff on, and reversal of, Rob Reiner's own paranoid theorizing; it makes it clear that dissent is an illness; and it's comic in the campy, sacrilegious way that Trump prefers, which seems to appeal to many Americans, even ... 6mo ago received

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in thread "The Lost Generation":

I think a discussion like this has to begin with at least a sketch of how these industries—entertainment, journalism, and so on—were decimated over the past quarter-century.... 6mo ago received

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I'm okay with the suggestion I must be a fruit or whatever, but I do want to make my conclusion clear.... 6mo ago received

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in thread "The Rise and Fall of Abstraction":

I don't know Robin Hanson. I think, though, that what he seems to be doing here is restating in digestible terms components of a fairly old idea—that we experienced an epistemological crisis, that grand narratives disappeared, that scientific abstraction... 6mo ago received

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I thought my post already sounded bratty, so I didn't want to close it with a list of books... To be clear, I don't think you need to make reference to Jean-François Lyotard or Jürgen Habermas or Fredric Jameson to join a debate on postmodernity. But if ... 6mo ago received

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Assigned Reading: Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon. 1994. Chapter 1: “An Elegy for the Canon,” pp. 15–41.
Who am I to assign a reading? Who am I to assume that you haven’t already read, absorbed or rejected, and debated to death Harold Bloom on the canon? It's not compulsory. I’m hopeful. The chapter helped me to think. It might help others. It's a contrib... (archive.org) posted 10mo ago with 4 replies received

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I went back and read "The Educated Imagination." Thanks. I started playing the Northrop Frye Bible lectures for myself while working, as well. 6mo ago received

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in thread "The Production of Atrocity Spectacles":

Here, the exhortation to historicize things—"This didn't begin on October 7th"—could be heeded. The cause of the Palestinians has exercised the American left going certainly to the 1960s, certainly in the 2000s... I feel old: some people reading this m... 8mo ago received

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Right. I think you put it the right way. I didn't mean to suggest that it's only exceptional due to time. Since I'm no longer young and I haven't been to America in too long, I wonder if you could answer this: Who are the true believers? I've got a clear p... 8mo ago received

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in thread "How to catch a wife, 2025 edition.":

This list gives me a good idea of what you might imagine a good husband to be, but it raises the question of what a good wife is. The list is good, but it needs a preamble, setting out exactly what the young man should be looking for. (My definition might ... 12mo ago received

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I think I come down on this side, too. My wife is intelligent. But there's no banter, as I understand that word. Even our first dates did not resemble screwball comedies or Aaron Sorkin scripts. We're not Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant (this pair came to... 9mo ago received

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in thread "It's The Asian Century":

I’ll the peripheral argument about the nature of the Chinese first.... 11mo ago received

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This sort of linguistic deconstruction is going to push you further from a clear understanding, especially for this sort of recent political terminology, made up of early modern neologisms. It reads so peculiarly in English—"socialism with Chinese charac... 11mo ago received

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I'm skeptical that it's encoded at such a deep syntactic level. "资本主义" is "capitalism"—and by that I mean that you couldn't get a sense of the connotations or flavor of the former by analyzing the meaning of the characters, or the linguistic vibr... 11mo ago received

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I will insist that some of these early modern Sinitic calques of foreign political and economic terms don't really work with this idea. The Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans all use 资本主义/資本主義—the same characters read differently: ziben zhuyi... 11mo ago received

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I agree on "rice" and "beauty."... 11mo ago received

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