CURRENT WISDOM: Assorted Jackasses
CURRENT WISDOM The Nation Young Josh Russell, the tear gas of 1968 still strong in his nostrils, delivers Bad News for the Rockefellers, the Mellons, and the other 20 families that...
...It felt familiar to me, I’d see it on TV, I’d read about it in comic books...
...Then came the female politician has to have a set of urine fatwa: It said that drinking the pretty legs: urine of the Prophet Muhammad was deemed a blessing...
...Bush will use this the way Hitler used the Reichstag fire.’ I have never thought of the Republicans at any time since Reagan’s election as more than greedy, unscrupulous scoundrels...
...The new student activism is grounded in a vision of participatory democracy, student power and liberation...
...The student movement has, of course, not yet reached the proportions of the 1930s or ’60s, but the depth and sophistication of student organizing is growing and evolving by leaps and bounds...
...Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, has been a priest for more than 20 years...
...Although Antiquarian & Used Book dealer in it’s hard to tell with that haircut and a Cleveland...
...When I heard the news about the Twin Towers my first thought was ‘Oh, God...
...June 18, 2007) Seattle Times The latest development in the life of another of modern liberalism’s many Inescapable Conversationalists: Shortly after noon on Fridays, the Rev...
...Social movements come in waves and cycles...
...From the Archives Timeless Tosh From Current Wisdoms Past (September 1987): Harvard Outing Club McKinley Expedition A leaflet from the Harvard Outing Club (15 Linden Street, Cambridge, Mass...
...Our expedition to climb Mount McKinley is a public statement— “Harvard cares about the plight of the homeless...
...CURRENT WISDOM She does both, she says, because she’s Christian and Muslim...
...Frankly, the editors of AmSpec esteem Paris a Neoplatonist next to Dr...
...Rorty and Britney a philatelist of the first rank, but decide for yourself...
...July 16, 1987) SEPTEMBER 2007 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 81...
...Rorty passed away in June, occasioning an abundance of tributes from the faithful and the reprising of still more of his cool lucidities, among them the following, betraying, as it does, the philosopher’s intellectual debt to at least one Beatles album, possibly two: “My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law...
...02138) sings of another promising public policy initiative: Dear Harvard Outing Club Alumnus/Alumna: In the spirit of charity and good will, the Harvard Outing Club is working to draw attention to the plight of the homeless by sending an expedition to climb Mount McKinley this summer...
...JOSH RUSSELL SDS organizer (June 4, 2007) 80 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR Countdown with Keith Olbermann (PMSNBC) The rebarbative sound of gas emitting from one of cable news’s most inexhaustible bags: Good evening...
...Ann Holmes Redding ties on a black headscarf, preparing to pray with her Muslim group on First Hill...
...Redding, who until recently was director of faith formation at St...
...The question was posed by an interviewer at the Progressive: SEPTEMBER 2007 “I’m not aware of having moved to the left, and am curious as to why I might seem to have done so...
...I don’t feel as comfortable living in America as I did four years ago,” he admits...
...the pendulum is swinging back in our direction right now...
...The highest peak in North America, Mount McKinley is an inspiring metaphor for the magnitude of the challenge we face in dealing with the social crisis of this decade...
...Her announcement has provoked surprise and bewilderment in many, raising an obvious question: How can someone be both a Christian and a Muslim...
...Your support will emphasize that we speak for Harvard, past and present...
...The New SDS” by Christopher Phelps [April 16] articulates something a lot of young people are feeling more and more: the bubbling of a new student activism that’s just beginning to define our generation...
...Rorty responded to the question “Would it be fair to say that you’ve moved a bit to the left over the past few years...
...Despite the complexities of taking on the name SDS—both the opportunities and the baggage—we are a new organization for a new generation...
...June 2007) Slate Unfortunately Dr...
...Michigan Daily (July 2, 2007) Ms...
...June 17, 2007) The Great Books Series In his gloomy new book, God Is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens laments the limits of social science in assessing the plight of youthful masturbators and other heroes from his boyhood: We have no way to quantify the damage done by telling tens of millions of children that masturbation will make them blind, or that impure thoughts will lead to an eternity of torment, or that members of other faiths including members of their own families will burn, or that venereal disease will result from kisses...
...We are growing because we are providing an entry point into the movement that so many students are looking for...
...SDS is growing because students are hungry...
...Here is how Dr...
...collar bone that never sees the sun, she is a woman...
...July 2, 2007) The Progressive Difficult as it is to believe in an era when both Paris Hilton and Britney Spears remain intellectually active, the New York Times has acclaimed Professor Richard Rorty “the most famous living American philosopher...
...A president who lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends and neighbors, a president whose administration initially tried to destroy the first man to nail that lie, a president whose henchmen then ruined the career of the intelligence asset that was his wife when intelligence assets were never more essential to the viability of the Republic, a president like that has tonight freed from the prospect of prison the only man ever to come to trial for one of the component felonies in what may be the greatest crime of this young century...
...Jackson in the intellectual pages of RS: Jackson—who’s been based in New York City off and on for the past four years—says he’s grown increasingly disenchanted with the United States...
...When I first got here, I felt welcomed with open arms...
...Summer 1987) Rolling Stone How Amerika failed to live up to its depiction in literature as reported by a Mr...
...Twelve Hachette Book Group USA , 307 pages, $24.99] Plain Dealer In the pages of Cleveland’s famed Plain Dealer documented evidence of how difficult it can be to get a drink in Islamic lands: CAIRO, EGYPT—First came the breastfeeding fatwa: It declared that the Islamic restrictions on unmarried men and women being together could be lifted at work if the woman breast-in the pages of a venerable Big Ten fed her male colleagues five times, to daily, demonstrates that not every establish family ties...
...It seeks to be relevant, thoughtful and strategic, by taking intergenerational organizing and mentoring seriously, without nostalgia for the past...
...I don’t much care for her, but there is (June 17, 2007) still one thing that I admire about Cautious thanks to John T. Zubal, an Hillary Clinton: her vagina...
...From God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens...
...As a national student organizer for SDS and Rainforest Action Network, I see it daily across the country...
...CURRENT WISDOM The Nation Young Josh Russell, the tear gas of 1968 still strong in his nostrils, delivers Bad News for the Rockefellers, the Mellons, and the other 20 families that control Amerika: Oakland, Calif...
...Kellyn Jackson, apparently a Special thanks to longtime subscriber well-traveled Peeping Tom, writing Bill Cotterell, of Tallahassee, Florida...
...On Sunday morning, Redding puts on the white collar of an Episcopal priest...
...Now she’s ready to tell people that, for the last 15 months, she’s also been a Muslim—drawn to the faith after an introduction to Islamic prayers left her profoundly moved...
Vol. 40 • September 2007 • No. 7
