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• Stanley Fish - Think Again: Why McCain Would Vote For Obama

  Mon Mar 3, 2008
  • Professor Fish has written an early epitaph for an Obama candidacy v. Senator McCain. The apprehension respecting Senator Obama expressed by the 2nd poster encapsulates sentiments I have heard from friends at campuses across the country.

• Stanley Fish - Think Again: All You Need Is Hate

  Tue Feb 5, 2008
  • Professor Fish likely correctly anticipated his piece would better serve to reinforce Hillary haters than to detonate that crowd.

• The Cold War as Ancient History

  Mon Feb 4, 2008
  • The Cold War may well rest within Clio’s dustbin, and totalitarianism may seem remote to Mr.

• Ask Not What J.F.K. Can Do for Obama

  Sun Feb 3, 2008
  • Quixote or Richelieu?

• Stanley Fish - Think Again: Against Independent Voters

  Mon Jan 21, 2008
  • Professor Fish generalizes rather disingenuously about “independent voters” when he characterizes them as seeking to exist above the fray of real politics dreamily speculating in a Millian “marketplace of ideas.” Like many other independents I engage quite actively in …

• No Conditions for Talking to Obama, but Many Questions

  Sat Nov 24, 2007
  • The US should pursue dialogue with Iran, both to infuse new hope for improving the terribly vitiated relations between the two nations, and to undercut widely shared global attitudes about the hubris and intransigence animating American "diplomacy".

• The Real Rudy

  Fri Nov 23, 2007
  • David Brooks can rejoice, "the real Rudy" Giuliani unmasked himself during a campaign snack break, publicly repudiating his self-described boldness by consuming a soft pretzel sans moutard.

• He Found a Bundle of Money, and Now There’s Hell to Pay

  Fri Nov 9, 2007
  • Mr. Scott needs to check with his colleague Ms. Dargis about Jones'

• Hillary la Française, Cherchez la Femme?

  Wed Oct 31, 2007
  • Hillary,cherchez la prix; leave les femmes to Bill, Rudy [or les hommes to Sen. Craig], to philanderers one and all. Like Bill, continue to resist letting others define you.

• Bringing Calories Out of Hiding

  Sat Oct 27, 2007
  • Folks seeking a haven from the calorie police should immediately relocate to AR. Although literacy and college degrees elude Arkansasans, the state competes annually for the top rank in obesity.