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George W Bush is back – but not all appreciate his new progressive image

George W Bush is back – but not all appreciate his new progressive image
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The Annual Reminder that McCarthyism was Actually a Bad Idea | Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Florida legislature periodically considers laying the groundwork for a purge of academics of whose political leanings it disapproves. Usually, such nonsense dies on the vine.
This year, it's apparently gaining momentum. So at the risk of redundancy, I had to break out the annual "wow, that is a spectacularly bad idea" post.
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An unimaginably long time ago, I was a graduate student in normative political theory, also known as political philosophy. It wasn’t necessarily one of my better life choices, but I didn’t know that at the time. My small and scrappy group of peers and I tried to blast our way through the canon of Western political thought -- from Plato to NATO, as we said then -- along with the then-current layers of interpretation. I had to learn to do battle with Benjamin Barber on Rousseau, with Stephen Eric Bronner on Habermas, with Linda Zerilli on Judith Butler, with Jackson Lears on Eugene Debs, and with Carey McWilliams on John Dewey. (Peers included such current stars as Manfred Steger, known for his work on globalization; Cristina Beltran, known for her work on Latino politics and identify; and Patrick Deneen, known for his work on liberalism.) It was a different time.

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Gratitude and Forbearance: On Christopher Lasch

Chicago Sun and the
St. Louis
Post-Dispatch. The Lasches were determinedly secular, and read American history as it had been written by Charles and Mary Beard and the progressive historians—the struggle of a resolutely enlightened people against the lies and malevolence of the wealthy and powerful. The social legislation of the New Deal years confirmed Zora and Robert’s belief that American history proceeded in a straight line, its occasional jaggedness entirely the result of temporary accidents that could be remedied by right-thinking people like themselves. They were immensely proud of their son, an only child, but when he became fascinated with history’s temporary accidents they grew anxious that he would abandon familial convictions. Lasch remained in close and loving touch with his parents throughout his life, but he discarded their intellectual and political pieties as he grew older. He had considered a literary career and experimented with short stories and a novel. His historical writing, at once sparse, even parsimonious, in narrative yet rich in analogies, asides and metaphors, was intended for the educated public and those historians not shackled to disciplinary conventions. He distinguished historical background from political foreground, he was a master of argumentative clarity and he possessed unusual cultural sensitivity. His literary style and intellectual demeanor were of a sort that has become rare.

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Transition, Trauma, and Troubled Times - International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Transition, Trauma, and Troubled Times - International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine
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Transition, Trauma, and Troubled Times - International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

JANUARY 6 CERTAINLY marked a highly original way of showing “the celebration of America’s sacred peaceful transition of presidential power,” and a signal of continuing troubled times. It was a spectacle for the ages — a final futile grasp at retaining power by the outgoing president, morphing from an absurdist quasi-putsch into a deadly aspiring lynch mob inside the Capitol, followed by the late-evening reconvening of Congress for the ritual of ratifying the Electoral College vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
It will take quite a while to assess the lasting impact of these events and their likely aftershocks. The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump ended as everyone knew it would: with overwhelming proof of his guilt, and his acquittal with Republican Senators refusing to convict. But multiple ironies and contradictions remain, as the continuous criminal enterprise of the Trump administration finally gives way to the “normal” workings of the U.S. capitalist state under the centrist neoliberalism of Biden, Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.

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Can Biden rein in America's debilitating delusions of moral superiority?

Can Biden rein in America's debilitating delusions of moral superiority?
Posted : 2021-02-04 16:30
By Tom Plate
The first major American post-election result return is in! It's being able to feel that the ground under your feet isn't always shaking and your head isn't always aching. Yes, U.S. President Joe Biden is doing that for the U.S., especially in this early wave of foreign-policy appointments. He is acting like a president. All, of course, is not perfect.
Asians who know a lot about Antony Blinken, Biden's pick for secretary of state, admire him. It is the same with Kurt Campbell, who has been appointed Indo-Pacific coordinator on the National Security Council. ("Hope Biden will listen to his advice," Southeast Asian diplomat Tommy Koh told me.)

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Meritocracy on Trial

ILLUSTRATION BY BENOIT TARDIF
In 1958, a British sociologist named Michael Young, in a book called
The Rise of the Meritocracy, portrayed a dystopia. He imagined a society in which the old class system of Britain had been swept aside; instead of inherited wealth or family connections, it was exceptional ability that propelled individuals into the elite. This new system, designed to reward the most talented, was just as rigidly hierarchical as the old one, in Young’s depiction. And in important ways, it was worse: In the past, at least, those born into a high rank could not reasonably convince themselves that they had earned their position in the social hierarchy; likewise, people in the lower classes would be aware that they were not inferior in ability to many of those who ranked above them. By contrast, in this new system of meritocracy, individuals who reached the top positions would feel superior to those who fell short, while those at the bottom would inevitably be classified as failures.

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