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Ed Kilgore in The New Republic boils down the ingredients of national Republic Party policy positions. Is this what it has come to? Looks like a stark contrast for Nov. 2012. Read his short piece here, which I picked up from realclearpolitics.com
Read More »The Sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Remembrance of the Civil War and the role played by the city of Lowell and its citizenry continues as a theme as the Lowell Historical Society opens its 2011-2012 program season with a presentation entitled “J.C. Ayer & Company and the Civil War.” The…
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Read More »The American Scholar has published an excerpt from the forthcoming memoir by the dean of literary agents in New York City, Sterling Lord. He became Jack Kerouac’s agent in the mid-1950s, and in the early 60s linked up with Ken Kesey, who had just written “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s…
Read More »In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kenneth Goldsmith explores the way writing in the digital age is becoming something different. If you skim down toward the end, he offers some surprising examples of what people are “writing” and publishing. For those not familiar with it, the Chronicle is the mainstream…
Read More »“Cake and Tea” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Leymah Gbowee, 2011 UMass Lowell Greeley Peace Scholar (web photo by Chester Higgins Jr. courtesy of nytimes.com) Page one of “The Arts” in today’s New York Times includes Julie Bosman’s article about the upcoming book tour by Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee, the 2011 UMass Lowell Greeley Scholar for Peace…
Read More »No, I’m not talking about the latest local political melodrama; I’m talking about stairs. I’m reading “At Home: A short history of private life” by humorist Bill Bryson (A Walk in the Woods, The History of Nearly Everything) in which Bryson deconstructs the modern residence and explains the history of…
Read More »The University of Massachusetts Lowell joins other universities with its own Center for Public Opinion. According to Lowell’s Chancellor Marty Meehan: “The Center for Public Opinion will advance understanding of government, societal issues and the political process and encourage cicivc engagement among our students to help them achieve the well-rounded…
Read More »Been a while since I dragged Th. L. Friedman over to the blog, but today’s opinion entry at nytimes.com is worth reading as a reminder of what’s at stake in our political contests. The Dems lost what should have been a sure bet in New York, and only have their…
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