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Monthly Archives: March 2011

· Violence in the Old West? Only when the government marched in.

Thursday, 10 March 2011

The civil society of the American West in the nineteenth century was much more peaceful than American cities are today, and the evidence suggests that in fact the Old West was not a very violent place at all. History also reveals that the expanded presence of the U.S. government was the real cause of a culture of violence in the American West.

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All wrapped in white linen, as cold as the clay.

Thursday, 10 March 2011

Jesse Mullins: The American frontier forged American character. It might not be going too far to say that the appearance of the cowboy in the late 1800s marked the culmination of the protracted process that yielded the quintessentially American character.

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· The bad taste of acrimony in a debate over genetically-modified food.

Thursday, 10 March 2011

It is indeed a pity that several aspects of debate in this country on genetically modified (GM) crops and foods have adopted the adversarial approach rather than a consensual one.

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· Hungry for a little global warming?

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Most of the under-developed world has no access to hearty seeds, advanced farming and equipment, irrigation technology or the ability to rotate crops or keep land fallow.

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· ‘The Walking Dead’: Still dead, still ungrateful, still trucking.

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

The zombie keeps on: it’s what he does.

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· College admissions: Why blight the hopes of 10,000 kids when you can blight the hopes of 25,000?

Monday, 7 March 2011

In my ideal world, each great university would seek the student body best fitted to make use of its resources, its community life and its idiosyncratic ways of doing things. The admissions frenzy would die down, and we’d be able to worry about the big issues — the real-world ones that affect the vast majority of young Americans who don’t attend selective colleges.

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For Marvell, think Bernie Sanders with a growing ‘vegetable love’.

Sunday, 6 March 2011

Imagine if the most cunning and cosmopolitan poet of our era—John Ashbery, say—were a progressive US senator from a small state far from Los Angeles, New York, or Washington, along the lines of Bernie Sanders. Envision, too, that this poet/politician hides out in the margins of his poems, such that his angle on any subject, philosophical, religious, or political, atomizes into irreconcilable fragments—except that he also writes fierce, polemical pamphlets, though often without signing his name to them, and maneuvers under threat of exposure and censure.

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· Newman’s quiet canonisation: no stigmata, please. We’re British.

Saturday, 5 March 2011

A study which, from its rueful opening anecdote about Cornwell’s first visit as a seminarian to Newman’s then very quiet grave, strives to paint a full and fair picture of an extremely talented, driven, passionate human being.

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· Arthur Green and ‘the possibilities and limits of Jewish theology’.

Saturday, 5 March 2011

You distinguish my views from earlier Jewish notions of an abstract deity by saying that I “flatly deny” divine transcendence. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

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· Stephen Fry, with no paper, ink, binding, or covers? You pay twice for that.

Thursday, 3 March 2011

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) last month launched a similar probe into the prices of ebooks, which can cost more than twice as much as their printed cousins.

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· The Trollope Prize. Deadline: 1 June 2011.

Thursday, 3 March 2011

THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW is partnering with The Trollope Prize at the University of Kansas to to publish the winner of the 2011 graduate essay competition.

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Bly in prose: the song of the body, the memory of rhythm.

Thursday, 3 March 2011

Myra Sklarew: The Bly of Reaching Out to the World is a presence, a powerful force, all hints and subtleties gathered up into an enormous bouquet that he and his speaker offer to the world.

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