― -+-+-+++- (ooo), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
(Oddly enough, I do like reading the Chronicle of Higher Education, but I don't think it has exactly the same negatives that A&LD has, plus it does a lot of real reporting.)
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
funny tho, i always forget about aldaily until this thread pops up. if its rss feed sent you right to the articles it'd be much better.
― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
still love the chronicle but christ the aldaily is um problematic
"The global economy has its ugly corners but the overall system delivers more happiness than all the failed utopias of the past. Disagreeing with this makes you a pathetic faggot, SOME AUSTRIALIAN COLUMNIST explains..."
― gff, Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link
"do you think Hitler was bad? Guess what, Stalin was really bad also. BOOK REVIEWER FOR SPIKED ONLINE elucidates..."
― gff, Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
You doubt that Malcolm X was a paragon of humanitarianism, that gender is a construction, that Native American myth is true? You’re culturally incompetent...
isnt gender a construct by its own definition?
― and what, Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
"For most persons, gender identity and biological characteristics are the same. There are, however, circumstances in which an individual experiences little or no connection between sex and gender; in transsexualism, for example, biological sexual characteristics are distinct and unambiguous, but the affected person believes that he or she is—or ought to be—of the opposite sex (see transsexualism). Gender identity is not fixed at birth; both physiologic and social factors contribute to the early establishment of a core identity, which is modified and expanded by social factors as the child matures."
from the ruthlessly liberal encyclopedia britannica
― and what, Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link
that Native American myth is true?
this is even more o_O frankly!
― gff, Thursday, 30 August 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link
liberals be sacrificing crops to ravens and cannibalizing other tribes
― and what, Thursday, 30 August 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Hardly anyone bothers using this valuable distinction anymore, but yeah:
sex = biological gender = social construction / cultural role
― nabisco, Thursday, 30 August 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link
one thing abt reading something like A&LD regularly, you start to notice how lame and contrived the vast majority of these essays/columns are. i'd need examples to explain, but i stopped checking it every day after i realized i felt like i was reading the same six articles over and over again with different names. and yeah the libertarian angle is annoying: who needs to read another article about how milton friedman was god?
there was one a while back on hannah arendt that basically dismissed her entire oeurve by complaining that she was hard to read!
― J.D., Thursday, 30 August 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah, otm. but in a way, that's more revealing of the stasis of opinion represented in a particular pub's editorial line -- if you link to stuff from City Journal and the NY Sun and the Telegraph and WSJ all the time, well, that's what you're going to get.
they don't seem to link to anything actually in the chronicle very much, either.
― gff, Thursday, 30 August 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Didn't the current guy take over arts & letters daily from someone else? Was it better before?
― Dan I., Thursday, 30 August 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Suspicion of the public and fear of the future underpin much political analysis these days, with Al Gore a prime example... more»
― gff, Thursday, 30 August 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link
(hmm ok they link to the chronicle more often that i thought)
― gff, Thursday, 30 August 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
part of the publication stasis and repetitiveness of articles = freelance writers have to pay rent every month
the whole "I can pitch professionally" skill-set exacerbates this, since the impulse is then to (very professionally) pitch publications articles that (very professionally) conform to their style, worldview, and mechanics
which means it's not just your perception that the publication is predictable to the point of self-parody -- it means that people are actually trying to cover their rent by thinking up the ultimate in Exactly What That Publication Would Run
― nabisco, Thursday, 30 August 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link
-- gff, Thursday, August 30, 2007 2:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
Haha, I had never HEARD of Spiked before I started reading A&L
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 30 August 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah, i'm still a little unclear on what it is or is trying to be. some kind of "intelligent lad" kind of thing, i guess.
― gff, Thursday, 30 August 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Pro-choice groups stand for women's rights to choose how and when to have babies. Could this ever amount to old-fashioned eugenics?... more
― gff, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
ugh
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
I haven't visited this site in over a year and I am saner for it.
Weary of global-warming hysteria, John Tierney needed a fresh view. So he went to the scourge of eco-catastrophism... more» ... more»
― abanana, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link
lol holy shit
― and what, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Weary of having to worry about stuff, John Tierney needed a fresh strawman ...
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Vampires do not exist. In fact, it seems the nonexistence of vampires is necessary for human existence. Do the math... more»
really, guys?
― and what, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
haha they're really scraping the barrel
― J.D., Wednesday, 31 October 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
wonder what paulhw has to say about that
― omar little, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Dear Readers...
Along with many friends, I’ve felt frustrated in recent years trying to reconcile wildly opposed claims about global warming. In order to advance better understanding, Doug Campbell and I have created a new website. If global warming issues interest you, we invite you to visit Climate Debate Daily. http://aldaily.com/sigsmall2.gif
― and what, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
You don’t have to be a Christian to know that while Islam spread by the sword, Christianity mainly spread by precept, example, and peaceful persuasion...
― J.D., Sunday, 10 February 2008 00:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Has anyone mentioned
www.bookforum.com
?
― Martin Van Burne, Sunday, 10 February 2008 03:29 (sixteen years ago) link
-- gff, Thursday, August 30, 2007 2:49 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Link
-- gff, Thursday, August 30, 2007 2:55 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Link
this srsly makes me laugh every time i read aldaily <3 <3 <3 u gff
― and what, Thursday, 10 April 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Was it one of these from yesterday that inspired the revive?:
Orthodox Judaism, not unlike more familiar kinds of Christian fundamentalism, uses the Old Testament to keep the minds of believers in bondage... more
Neoconservatism. To some it means "hawk," to others "right-wing Jew," and to still others, it's a term to describe anything evil - torture or political oppression... more
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 10 April 2008 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
"Just when it seems that forensic research blah blah Camille Paglia blah, when actually, blah blah or whatever... "
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 10 April 2008 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
"Christopher Hitchens has a bone to pick with liberals"
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 10 April 2008 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Dick Cheney warned that there might never be an “end date” in the struggle against terrorism. All these years later, his wisdom seems vindicated... more»
― and what, Friday, 11 April 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
<3 u 2 boo
― gff, Friday, 11 April 2008 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
their hardon for all that crypto racist/misogynist ev-psych stuff is a riot as well
― gff, Friday, 11 April 2008 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
U.S. foreign policy in expansive, idealistic, and militarist mode has done well: defeats of Nazism, Japanese imperialism, and Soviet communism, for instance... more»
― and what, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
xD
― gff, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
and of course it's a link to an article by A&LD's fav neocon blowhard, robert kagan
― J.D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link
why link to a 3 week old voice article about latin dudes saying nigga
― the birdman from the hilarious lil wayne albums (and what), Friday, 14 November 2008 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
because the article's so freaking thought-provoking that it manages to say absolutely nothing at all of any interest, which is right up aldaily's alley
― nabisco, Friday, 14 November 2008 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
seriously, though, they have an incredible eye for pieces that seize on a seemingly mundane angle and then proceed to go on and on without getting anything out of it, not even navel-gazing or overthinking, just putting words in front of one another without any of it having any particular thrust whatsoever
― nabisco, Friday, 14 November 2008 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
(Fully aware of the irony of me saying that BTW, but that should tell you something!)
― nabisco, Friday, 14 November 2008 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
some nice shirts here
http://www.cafepress.com/aldaily
― morbza the greek (and what), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
more»
^^ this alone is enough to make me laugh now
― joule kilcher (goole), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
haha i love this thread
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
John Milton was a champion of liberty, to be sure. But in his language and outlook, he was not a modern “secular liberal”... more»
oh no shit?
― joule kilcher (goole), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Between margin scribbles, the selection itself, and even a hair tucked between pages, Hitler’s personal library brings us creepily closer to the man... more» --------------------------------------------------------------------------------“The knell of private property sounds,” wrote Karl Marx. ”The expropriators are being expropriated.” Hardly. Look at the Bolsheviks... more»
― joule kilcher (goole), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
What do girls want? A new series of vampire novels throws light onto the complexities of female adolescent desire. Caitlin Flanagan explains... more»
^^vomit
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Like Arts & Letters Daily except not so stupid: http://thebrowser.com/
― stet, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
This is great; I think I heard of it from S1oki's twitter: http://frontsection.net/
― Dan I., Friday, 9 July 2010 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
ya my friend dan does that. happy to see that's what causing this revive!!
― young werther's originals (s1ocki), Friday, 9 July 2010 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, looks cool
― goole, Friday, 9 July 2010 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/12/denis-dutton-has-died.html
― goole, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
damn. RIP dude. still need to read "The Art Instinct"
― markers, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP. Kept aldaily as my homepage long after I stopped reading the articles with any regularity, just because it has such a calming layout
― once more Jagger faps the hivemind (symsymsym), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:43 (thirteen years ago) link
olden times bookmark, rip
― buzza, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't want to sound like an asshole, but this has much improved since DD bit it.
― Dan I., Sunday, 27 February 2011 07:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Mary McCarthy might have been a viperish, bipolar nymphomaniac. Who cares? Pay attention to what matters most: her writing...
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
can't even begin to say how much i want to flip off whoever runs this fuckin' site
jesus fuck
― goole, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
Amazon’s world. The book industry’s woes are largely self-inflicted. “This is a business run by English majors, not business majors”... more»
― goole, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, didn't know ALDaily was still around. I sort of like that it looks exactly the same. How long has it been a part of Chronicle of Higher Education?
I think they're getting playful with their own rep: e.g. this
Most people in academe want to get out, says Terry Eagleton, who is himself getting out. And it’s just as well. So often the intellectual is the opposite of the academic... more»
signals in every way that you're going to be treated to your 1000th "professors are lost inside their own ivory asses, universities are dying and good riddance" article and when you follow the link it's in fact a discussion of Eagleton's book "Why Marx was Right." Gotcha, ALDaily faithful!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
Either that or the editors have completely lost all their facilities of reading comprehension
― Dan I., Thursday, 7 June 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
Why did conservation – a gentle, optimistic undertaking – give way to the more divisive environmentalism? Two words: Rachel Carson...
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
anybody know anything about this site?
https://www.nsfwcorp.com/
it is sfw, btw
― goole, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
It was ... Not very good last I looked
― stet, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
is there a way to see any of it w/o paying?
― goole, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
i only ever saw one thing on that site, that crazy mark ames hit piece on malcolm harris
― max, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
its run by paul carr whos got to be one of the top ten biggest peeholes in tech journalism so
huh ok, never heard of that guy
― goole, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
lol'd at this one:
Lionized in his own time, Beethoven was nonetheless in a perpetual rage. Thus his fondness for exclamation points...
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link
this site still exists?
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
dow jones/wsj has a new culture war site up and running?
http://heatst.com/
goddamn look at this crap
― goole, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 19:15 (eight years ago) link
Oh what a fucking treat http://heatst.com/uk/alt-right-anti-semitism-debate-vox-day-vs-louise-mensch/
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 19:22 (eight years ago) link
great timing: politico just put this out today
http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/05/heat-street-charts-a-course-through-the-culture-wars-004560
― goole, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 20:33 (eight years ago) link
oh god it's louise mesch's baby...
this sounds like hell on earth:
Both Mensch and Kotch said their goal with Heat Street is to push back against what they see as the biggest transgression of the mainstream media — telling readers what to think.
“There is a lot of resistance to being lectured— especially among millennial news sources, which have a lecture-like quality,” Kotch said. “We are the antithesis of that.”
“It’s all very, ‘respect my authoritah, respect my authoritah,’” Mensch joked, referencing a punchline from the Comedy Central show South Park. (She is obviously a South Park fan, offering up a few generous recitations of relevant segments.)
― goole, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link