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Reading Tehran in Lolita — that’s part of what we’ll be attempting to do this coming Wednesday, Sept. 5, at 8pm. Our main goal, though, will be figuring out whether Western nations should fear becoming more like Tehran and other totalitarian or terroristic hotspots produced by Islam.
Brian McCarter, [...]
On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, NationalReview.com (who two years ago ran one of the three pieces I wrote on New Orleans) has posted an interview with Louisiana gubernatorial candidate Bobby Jindal, a politician and living cultural crossroads of special interest to me for multiple reasons.
–First, Jindal attended Brown while [...]
WHILE I’M AWAY OVER THE NEXT FIVE DAYS, I will have to brood occasionally upon the following thought: even many Republicans dismiss Ron Paul’s libertarian-themed presidential run as too far-out to win — yet I honestly don’t know who among the other Republican candidates is fully acceptable not just by my “extreme” libertarian standards but [...]
Oh, it’s easy to hate nature. Contrary to what the idyllically-inclined will tell you, it has inflicted death and disease on us since time immemorial — and, as I write this, is sending a massive hurricane toward Jamaica, where I happily vacationed just last month (at the wedding of a Ms. Gray — little [...]
In the Q&A that followed last night’s showing of the documentary Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa, one of the producer-directors said he was surprised (as a New Yorker who expects freedom-loving loners like the desert-dwellers depicted in the movie to be leftists) to find that this little community of people living on a [...]
I likened the rejection of civilization to becoming the Incredible Hulk in my previous post, so quickly, before I head out to see that documentary about people living outside civilization, I must note two odd bits of Hulk-related movie trivia.
•Zak Penn, writer on the superhero movies X2, Elektra, and Fantastic Four, and the upcoming [...]
I wanted to avoid having two outsiders debate about what to do with an unrepresented tribe of others, so I’m glad I found a Muslim (Stephen Suleyaman Schwartz of the Center for Islamic Pluralism) to argue the “no” position in our planned Sept. 5 (8pm) debate on the question “Is Muslim Immigration a Threat to [...]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (August 2007):
Science and Beyond (seven books on science — and its opposite!)
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I was lucky enough to join my friend Chuck Blake and a few others (including girlfriend Koli) recently in a discussion of physicist Lee Smolin’s book The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the [...]
A brief follow-up thought after my Ron Paul Radio appearance, and then I promise I’ll address some other topic:
The recent Wall Street Journal editorial, seemingly calculated to take Paul down a peg by noting earmarks with his name on them, either deliberately or ignorantly glossed over the fact that, as Paul has quite openly said, [...]
If all goes as planned, you can hear me talk about Ron Paul on Ron Paul Radio, the daily — daily! — broadcast about the Paul campaign, just launched on the Web radio station GCN, which you can hear by clicking on a player option here: http://www.gcnlive.com/listenlive.htm
I should be on between 6pm and 7 [...]
Since last night saw (a) half of the House of Representatives walk out angry after concluding that a vote count had been botched and (b) an ongoing spiral of argument on my previous blog entry over Ron Paul and who is or is not a libertarian (or a warmonger or [...]
As if the live bar debate I’m hosting tonight in Manhattan about gentrification weren’t exciting enough, today also sees the long-awaited posting of my NationalReview.com article plugging the presidential candidacy of Ron Paul.
There’s never time enough to squeeze in all the qualifiers and footnotes one might like to in a political piece (except in academia, [...]