[PEN-L:6032] Re: Brad De Long on working hours

1999-04-27 Thread Josh Mason
Jim Devine: >I'm all in favor of freeing the slaves. But it's not an unmixed blessing. In >some places in the Caribbean, I understand that the slave-owners freed >their own slaves in order to avoid the responsibility of keeping them alive. Some thought about the demographics of the Caribbean mig

[PEN-L:5050] Re: Diana Johnstone and ITT

1999-04-09 Thread Josh Mason
Louis: >Interesting. Deidre went from ITT to NACLA where she turned the journal >into a forum for "civil society" as opposed to the "thuggish" guerrilla >movements the mag used to identify with. She wrote a horrible editorial >clucking her tongue at Lori Berenson who was "ill-advised" enough to w

[PEN-L:5012] Diana Johnstone and ITT

1999-04-08 Thread Josh Mason
I'm not sure this is a discussion that needs to take place on PEN-L, but just to clear up a couple of points: 1. The decision to stop publishing Diana Johnstone was not made by James Weinstein, but by ITT's editorial staff--at that time, Deidre McFadyen, Dave Mulcahey and me. (All three of us

[PEN-L:2948] Re: Elgin marbles, museums, etc.

1999-02-05 Thread Josh Mason
Louis Proyect: >Returning Manhattan to the Indians? This is a joke, right? I haven't heard >this kind of Rush Limbaugh-tainted leftism, since I first started posting >about indigenous struggles on PEN-L a year ago. I thought I was paraphrasing something you actually wrote. Maybe I'm wrong, or ma

[PEN-L:2912] Re: Elgin marbles, museums, etc.

1999-02-05 Thread Josh Mason
Louis Proyect: > the whole question of museums. Something tells me that these sorts of >institutions should be dismantled after the capitalist system is >overthrown, and the contents returned to the rightful owners. This must be from the same part of your program as returning Manhattan to the I

[PEN-L:2687] Re: Re: LBO intern needed

1999-01-28 Thread Josh Mason
>Gerald Levy wrote: >>Doug writes: >> >>> H-lp! LBO badly needs an intern >> >>What did you say you were offering prospective candidates in terms of an >>hourly wage and benefits? >$50/week for 5-10 hours of work. No benefits, sorry. Except an education money can't buy. And the doors Doug's na

[PEN-L:2341] Re: Re: 1998 Bad Writing Contest winners

1999-01-20 Thread Josh Mason
Sounds to me like Noise Trader Risk in Financial Markets, by a certain J. Bradford DeLong. Josh >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/20 12:27 AM >>> that sounds like Robert Barsky's style ???