really feel youkind of a hard piece to read occuyping some of the same spaces as the author without having made lemonade from them
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 02:58 (eight years ago) link
i wonder just how many pieces lewis lapham has written decrying american politics/society with comparisons to the fall of rome (republic or empire, take your pick)
not that he's *wrong*, but it's a very specific and tiresome hammer he wields. mixed it up by going with the greeks this last time, at least
― mookieproof, Monday, 26 October 2015 23:15 (eight years ago) link
i couldn't even bear to start that article.
― slam dunk, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 00:48 (eight years ago) link
lol, I haven't read him in years but I feel like that was every "Easy Chair" (or whatever they called the editor's column at the time) he ever wrote. He seemed completely useless to me as a writer and thinker.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 03:43 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSlAnIbWoAAGoVF.png
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 October 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
smdh
"When journalists themselves wage campaigns to suppress the writing of other journalists, and intend to destroy a magazine for not toeing their ideological line, you can see how free speech truly is on the line." https://t.co/BjFbmBgqHJ— Harper's Magazine (@Harpers) January 12, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 January 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
🙄
― The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Friday, 12 January 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
There are some judgments in that piece that bypass "right-wing columnist" and go straight to "failed human"
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 12 January 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/
dud
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
the motives of these signatories aside, there's no attempt (by some) to establish thoughtcrime in the name of progressivism right now, huh? Check.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
the motives of these signatories aside
sorry can't extricate letter from motives of signatories
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
which likely vary except in Wokeland
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
that's where i live
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
On the positive side, my homie wrote this one:https://harpers.org/archive/2020/07/this-is-not-a-test-disaster-city-texas/
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link