Monday, June 14, 2004
Real work for a change
I’m finishing up a big long review essay on four books-- spent all day yesterday and half the night churning out about 4000 words. (Thanks to Janet for the day. Saturday, Jamie and I went swimming, played basketball, rode go-carts, and went to the laser tag arcade.) So no blogging ‘til this thing is done. I’ll be back a bit later with a heartfelt lament about how partisan extremism among Democrats and Republicans is betraying the vital center of American life. Really. I read in the New York Times yesterday that “it’s become difficult for a centrist to be nominated for president or to Congress or the state legislature,” and I just think that’s wrong.
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About Michael Bérubé, Department of Dangeral Studies
I teach literature and cultural dangeral studies at Penn State University. I have a "web" "log" (fr. blogue), and this is it.
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Best Education Blog, 2006 Wizbang Weblog Awards
2005 Koufax Award runner up / honorable mention for Best Series.
Second place, 2005 Wizbang Weblog Awards, Best of the Top 251-500 Blogs.
2004 Koufax Award honorable mention for Best Writing, Best New Blog, and Most Humorous Post.
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Rhetorical Occasions
What's Liberal?
Reviews / blog discussions:
November is Liberalpalooza Month®, brought to you by The Valve
Bitch. Ph.D., December 13
Joseph Kugelmass, November 28, and Valve cross-reference
Dave Maier, November 21, and Valve cross-reference
Adam Kotsko, November 11, and Valve cross-reference
Timothy Burke, November 9, and Valve cross-reference
Jodi Dean, November 8, and Valve cross-reference
Mark Bauerlein, November 3 (a generous cross-post of his New Criterion review)
Dr. Virago, November 2
Daniel Drezner, November 2 (and brief reply to Drezner by Eric Rauchway at TNR's "Open University")
John Holbo, November 1 (event announcement and kayfabe kickoff)
Ophelia Benson, Butterflies and Wheels, October 26
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Chris Potter, Pittsburgh City Paper, December 21
Glenn Altschuler, Philadelphia Inquirer, October 22
David Horowitz, FrontPage.com, October 20
Maximilian Pakaluk, National Review Online, October 19
Ezra Klein, Campus Progress, October 18
Jonathan Liu, New York Observer, October 9
Aaron Swartz, Raw Thought, October 4
Eric Rauchway, American Prospect Online, Sept 29
Aaron Barlow, ePluribus Media, Sept 16
Alan Wolfe, New York Times Book Review, Sept 10
Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution, Sept 7
Chris Clarke, Creek Running North, Aug 30
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon, Aug 18
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With Pittsburgh City Paper (Chris Potter), December 21
With The Talking Dog, November 27
With the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Bill Schackner), November 26
Free Exchange on Campus, part one and part two
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Brilliant and beautiful and profoundly moving graphic novel in .pdf format by Chris Clarke.
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