Posts Tagged ‘League of Denial’
Just a Few Monday Links
* We live in a time of noblesse oblige without the oblige — wealth disguised as merit and merit as a pretext for malice. Nobility dodges, nobility punishes. Nobility pretends it is not nobility, and tells us to take out short-term loans.
* On writing, and then revising, a dissertation: As much as you may hate what you’re writing at this exact moment, you will only feel a more precise and exhausted loathing toward it later on.
* Ezra Klein: Five thoughts on the Obamacare disaster.
* Histories of the Tea Party from Jacobin and the New Yorker.
* Kevin Drum steals my bit: Can America Survive Parliamentary Norms in a Presidential System?
Written by gerrycanavan
October 14, 2013 at 4:22 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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