On Tue, 19 Jul 1994, Blair Sandler wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote about today's WSJ article on the Christian
Coalition.
"They want to become, says organizer Ralph Reed, a true rainbow
coalition. This means that the easy equivalences of right=racist
and multiculti=progressive must be
It seems to me that gender and race have been occupying an increasing
share of left thinking and organization since the 1960s, and class a much
smaller share. Economistic and class-centered thinking may have been
dominant at one time, but this doesn't seem an adequate characterization
of
There is one postmodernist who writes with lucidity and humor.
His name is Michael Berube and his "Public Access--Literary
Theory and American Cultural Politics" has just been published
(Verso, 18.95). In the chapter "Just the Fax, Ma'am:
Postmodernism's Journey to Decenter", Berube discusses
I would like to subscribe to Pen-L, my name is Susanna Reid.
Please let me know what I have to do to organize this. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Thanks.
I'll be teaching intro to micro next term, and I'm looking for a book
that I can use as an antidote to the Friedmans' Free to Choose (please
don't recommend Free to Lose). I'm looking for something that
explains the nature of a market economy from the perspective not of
the so-called "free will,
Roy, I can't think of a good book that is as charismatic as the
Friedmans' without being as demagogic as the Friedmans'. At least
not off my head. Someone should write one: there's a new pen-l
challenge!
One thing: the left should learn to talk about freedom more.
One reason why MF and RF are so
