"Civilization is not self-supporting. It is artificial. If you are not prepared to concern yourself with the upholding of civilization -- you are done." (Ortega y Gasset)
Also off topic: I just read your comment on TNR and agree completely. I often felt that the comment threads were better than anything else in the magazine. We need to encourage Marty Peretz to start his own blog as a new place to congregate.
"01/28/2011 - 1:04pm EDT | noga1 You can see the degree of respect this magazine extends to its more active readers in the way it simply removes a blog which was the congregating place for many posters for many years without so much as granting us the courtesy of a parting message, some sign that they are aware of us or appreciate our contributions."
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Great comment thread!
yes, but will the commenters now migrate to Herf's very long TNR article?
more snow shovelling before I check again :)
I wonder what Peretz is thinking...
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Totally off topic, but thought you might like it:
http://adamholland.blogspot.com/2011/02/chomsky-grilling-linguica-by-rochelle.html
Also off topic: I just read your comment on TNR and agree completely. I often felt that the comment threads were better than anything else in the magazine. We need to encourage Marty Peretz to start his own blog as a new place to congregate.
"01/28/2011 - 1:04pm EDT | noga1
You can see the degree of respect this magazine extends to its more active readers in the way it simply removes a blog which was the congregating place for many posters for many years without so much as granting us the courtesy of a parting message, some sign that they are aware of us or appreciate our contributions."
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