Consider the difference between the neoliberal vs. the social-democratic self. This may be key to many things including current problems in university governance. Related is Bromwich’s 2021 column on current buzzwords (of neoliberalism). I don’t like Bromwich because he’s as slippery as the language he criticizes, claiming our interest in Ukraine is cleverly diverting attention from the climate disaster (I think he means he’s for Putin). But the column on language is interesting.
Meanwhile, some thoughts from Adolph Reed: the Afro-pessimist posture, and the idea that things did not change for Black people after 1964, 1965, 1968 legislation on civil rights, voting rights, and fair housing, deny 50 years of Black political development. And the Civil Rights Act doesn’t have all the teeth that were proposed (by H. Humphrey!) because it only addressed discrimination, not other motors of inequality.
Then there are more things from the magazine I disapprove of due to its stance on Ukraine, and whose issues I love to throw out: from January 2024, a marvelous piece on the opium trade and the U.S.’ oldest families’ connection to it. And there’s a discussion of Heather Cox Richardson’s new book, and more.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 