>Karl Hess on the New Left’s vocabulary, the use of violence and spontaneous action, and category-defying Black Panther alliances

>I was bothered also by the New Left’s use of jargon – such as using praxis rather than practice, of replicate rather than duplicate, a special language invented seemingly to prove that when New Lefters spoke even of ordinary things of life they were speaking as intellectually superior people. I was also puzzled with special […]

Read More >Karl Hess on the New Left’s vocabulary, the use of violence and spontaneous action, and category-defying Black Panther alliances

>Don’t think me cynical, but here’s an unorthodox way to introduce basic economics

>(REPOST FROM Saturday, August 26, 2006) A story in Al-Jazeera yesterday tells us that Palestinians are enthralled by a song called “Hawk of Lebanon” by the boy-band outfit dubbed “Northern Band”. Not an especially exciting name, but whatever. The song’s simple lyrics, “Hey, you, hawk of Lebanon. Hey, you, Nasrallah, Your men are from Hezbollah […]

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>Do we ever really get away from "Personal Responsibility"?

>(REPOST FROM Thursday, August 03, 2006) Even people that deride the conservative notion of “personal responsibility” don’t really disbelieve it. They can’t. They at least must believe that they are personally responsible for countering the conservatives’ ideas, and for changing the “social structure” and/or “the system” that renders people helpless. So there are many ways […]

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>The FCC strikes again! Support KNOZ!

>(REPOST FROM Thursday, July 13, 2006) I came across a story the other day in the Sacramento Bee about local “pirate” radio station KNOZ attracting the attention of the FCC. Or rather its wrath. KNOZ specializes in Hip Hop and whatnot. Ha, “Hip hop and whatnot”… The station doesn’t interfere with other stations operating near […]

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