From the desk of Johnny Fincioen on Thu, 2011-01-27 18:24 Obama’s popularity is on the rise. According to Gallup, the growth in sympathy for the man is the largest with Independents (+7%) and with Republicans (+5%). These voters give the impression they think to have stopped his socialism in the recent elections, and now they want to offer him their hand while he is down. Americans are the most generous and forgiving people of the world. Americans are also extremely proud to have elected an African American as their President. That’s how they bought off the racist label forever. From the desk of Steve Kogan on Wed, 2011-01-26 17:14 This is Part 4 (A) of "'I See Further Than Others': Reflections On Oswald Spengler'sThe Decline of the West and The Hour of Decision", a serial essay by Steve Kogan. Like speaks to like. In a singular observation onThe Decline, Jorge Luis Borges remarks on a rare quality of Spengler's "virile pages, written between 1912 and 1917," which "were never contaminated by the hatred peculiar to those years" (1). It is a striking comment to make about a philosophy of history, for it does not address Spengler's ideas or scholarship but the moral character of the work in relation to its times. In this respect, Borges’ "Capsule Biography" belongs to the genre of the exemplary portrait and is closer to the spirit of Plutarch's Lives than to modern criticism.He's Such A Good Speaker, Sir!
The History Of A Metaphor (1)
Thursday, 27 January 2011
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