30 October 2008

29 October 2008

"His choice"

I may want to remember this moment in a few years.

26 October 2008

Literary criticism is dead; long live the new literary criticism

On or around 2000, literary criticism died, died, died.

More on this if I ever have the time and inclination.

01 October 2008

The glacial shift of institutional opinion

"Bush was a laughing stock in the gray corridors of the UN" (Spiegel; September 30, 2008)

It took nearly eight years, two wars, torture, extraordinary rendition, and an impending global recession to tarnish the office of the US presidency. Such is the massive weight of institutional opinion. This has Bush's most extraordinary accomplishment.