Harvard as Hogwarts?
I’m a few years removed from the college admissions process, but this is a pretty novel selling point.
Daily Archive: December 6, 2009
“For one, the point is clearly made that the ‘master ring’, the so-called ‘one ring to rule them all’, is actually a rather elaborate justification for preemptive war on Mordor. “
I missed this the first go-round, but McSweeney’s parody of Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky on The Lord of the Rings is pretty funny.
The Analytical Rigor of Racists
On the fringes of the internet, you often hear that the science of hereditary racial differences is settled, that racial equality is a convenient fiction that doesn’t stand up to real scrutiny. So you’ll...
War Is Politics By Other Means
Scott’s recent post on President Obama’s decision re: Afghanistan is worth the read. He makes a number of very interesting points, but I’m not quite sure I get this part. Scott quotes the following...
