Daily Archives: June 27, 2024

The Freak Show That Ate America (6-27-24)

Posted on June 27, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 You’ve been thunderstruck, https://www.netflix.com/title/8168587803:00 LAT: Protesters on both sides criticize LAPD response to violent demonstration outside synagogue, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-27/more-details-emerge-protest-outside-la-synagogue10:00 Reading Against The Novel, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/07/18/reading-against-the-novel-james-fitzjames-stephen/57:00 Debate coverage begins1:01:00 Samuel Moyn, Professor of History, Harvard University: Where do human rights come from?, … Continue reading →

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LAT: Protesters on both sides criticize LAPD response to violent demonstration outside synagogue

Posted on June 27, 2024 by Luke Ford

I’m pretty shocked to find that partisans after a brawl blame the other side for unseemly behavior. Who would have thought? I’m thunderstruck. I’m shaking at the knees. Can I come again please? The LA Times reports: A physician based … Continue reading →

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WP: How the freak show took over America

Posted on June 27, 2024 by Luke Ford

David Friend writes for the Washington Post: As author Jonathan Schell would write, the Simpson and Clinton dramas proved to be beta tests for what Schell called a “new media machine” that chose to elevate “the trifling (sex and lies … Continue reading →

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Reading Against the Novel

Posted on June 27, 2024 by Luke Ford

Tim Parks writes for the July 18, 2024 edition of NYBooks.com: In hundreds of essays and reviews, the nineteenth-century lawyer and judge James Fitzjames Stephen considered the novel’s effects on society at a time when it was becoming the dominant … Continue reading →

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