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Dec 31

“Something has gone terribly wrong,” said Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, “when the biggest threat to our American economy is the American Congress.” Jennifer Steinhauer, “A Showdown Long Foreseen,” New York Times, December 31, 2012.
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Jul 15

“It is through spatial structures that mental structures take shape.” Pierre Bourdieu, quoted in Françoise Gaspard, A Small City in France, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), 60.

Mar 27

“The point of submitting a piece of writing to the scrutiny of another is that self-editing is so darned hard. Scholars especially need another eye on their work, because they compose at a high level of abstraction and detail. Few brains can simultaneously monitor conceptual progress and mechanical detail without lapses. Academic copy editors can find plenty to improve even in the writing of English Ph.D.’s—just as those scholars are perfectly able to point out errors in writing other than their own.” Carol Saller, “Are You a Difficult Writer?”, Lingua Franca, The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 27, 2012.

Mar 12

“The contraction of the public imagination preceded the Tea Party and opened the way for its political effects.” Daniel T. Rodgers, “‘Moocher Class’ Warfare: How four decades of radical individualism diminished society and gave rise to the Tea Party,” Democracy: A Journal of Ideas 24 (Spring 2012), p. 3.

“The most faithful followers of obscure leftist thinkers in Paris, New York or Berkeley are the most reactionary elements in the American heartland.” Ian Buruma, “A New Idea of Truth,” Aljazeera English, March 12, 2012

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