Attacking people you haven't read and/or barely understand isn't my
idea of what intellectuals are supposed to do ...
Doug
Unless, that is, what is not understood is not understandable. The
following is from volume three of Robert Skidelsky's bio of John Maynard
Keynes: Keynes's 'blind
Carl Remick wrote:
Attacking people you haven't read and/or barely understand isn't my
idea of what intellectuals are supposed to do ...
Unless, that is, what is not understood is not understandable.
by which token sokal is as much a fool as those he ridicules, for
i am sure i will find
Robinson, along with Meek, did to Marx what Samuelson did to Keynes --
show how his work could be interpreted in terms of respectable economics
by removing much that is valuable. I doubt that either felt that they
were violating the work that they were interpreting.
I spent an afternoon with
Kuttner, tompaine.com, and Moyers are political
comrades. How much more 'left' one is than the
other is a trivial question. How left they all are
compared to your ideal, or to what you think
is defensible, is more to the point.
By the way, Paul Starr, TAP co-editor, is notably less liberal
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Like Max, I really don't care how left someone is. It's not like there's a way of measuring such things along some hard-and-fast and objective spectrum. Besides, what's left changes over time. Back in the 1940s, supporting the state of Israel
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Kuttner, tompaine.com, and Moyers are political
comrades. How much more 'left' one is than the
other is a trivial question. How left they all are
compared to your ideal, or to what you think
is defensible, is more to the point
Yup. I talked with someone who recently
interviewed for a job at DLC, and it was made
clear that they *hate* Kuttner, and would love
to see TAP vaporize. Which, if the rumors are
correct, may be about to happen.
Doug
Kuttner's opposition to Clinton--the quintessential DLC'er--could
Devine, James wrote:
Similarly, I heard on pen-l that Alan Sokal was a social democrat.
Who cares? Does his status as a social democrat imply that he's
worse than some creep who runs a small sect of five people which
claims to have the correct line (or program)? should we shun Sokal
and
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Doug, I wasn't defending Sokal. Instead, I was arguing against indiscriminate use of political labels, as if we should assume that someone is wrong on all counts just because they're a social democrat.
It's probably true he didn't
Speaking of the glorious days of Clinton, I was just reminded yesterday
that Ira Magaziner was behind the ICANN mess as well as Hilary's health
care fiasco.
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California State University
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