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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Noted elsewhere: History is not a mirror.

Thursday, 3 June 2010

Is it really necessary for Americans today to proclaim their loyalties as if they were combatants in a war that took place 150 years ago?

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Andrei Voznesensky, 1933-2010.

Wednesday, 2 June 2010

Stephen Dodson: They packed stadiums to hear him read alongside his fellow rebellious poets Evgeny Evtushenko and Bella Akhmadulina. They knew, as I did not yet, that he had been publicly threatened by Khrushchev at a Kremlin meeting, called an agent of foreign enemies, and told by the head of the KGB that he should leave the country. I did know that he had denounced censorship and criticized the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

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Excerpt: Philosophy as therapeia.

Wednesday, 2 June 2010

Carlisle and Ganeri: The conception of philosophy as therapeia allows for, and even necessitates, a new reading of the history of philosophy, one in which deep continuities come into vision which have been obscured, a reading which also contradicts those who have wanted to maintain that philosophy is a peculiarly European cultural product, and instead affirms its identity as a global intellectual practice.

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Noted elsewhere: 'The euro zone has failed.'

Wednesday, 2 June 2010

After the establishment of the euro zone, the economic growth of its member states has slowed down compared to previous decades, increasing the gap between the rate of growth in the euro-zone countries and that in other major economies—such as the United States and China, smaller economies in Southeast Asia and other parts of the developing world, as well as Central and Eastern European countries that are not members of the euro zone.

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Noted elsewhere: Not dead yet.

Tuesday, 1 June 2010

That avant-garde broadsheet the New York Times supplemented its dull “Corrections” with a “Public Editor” who combines pomposity with groveling as only a New York Times editor can. And, in “Styles of the Times,” Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust have been crossbred with Anna Wintour to produce something for famously overdressed people with scary romantic entanglements that’s known in the trade as the Gay Sports Pages.

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