From the July Harper’s: Chance that an American thinks “the Jews” were moderately or very much to blame for the financial crisis: 1 in 4 Chance he or she thinks they were “a little” to blame: 1 in 7 I thought this was interesting in light of our recent Junta on discrimination.
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Letter to Harper’s on Zorn
Our colleague’s piece in Harper’s concerning John Zorn elicited a reader’s letter to the editor. The reader said Cohen’s articles was “appropriately polymathic” but that his history of music was “curiously garbled.” The full text is freely available at Harpers.org, though you need to scroll to the bottom of the page – it’s the fourth …
Democracy is Bad for You
Date: Monday, July 6th Time: 7-9pm Place: Arrow Bar, 85 Avenue A, btw 5th/6th St. The next Junta will be centered on the question of democracy in our time. As democracy spreads through a society, power devolves from the elites and the middle class grows. Theoretically, this process should continue until the poor are also …