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via nytimes.com While I, and other lefties, view Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia in high regard as their social-democratic policies on healthcare and women’s rights are dazzling, the immigration issue is always a sticking-point. This was made clear with the case of the Pakistani cab drivers in Norway not too long ago. Posted via […]

via slate.com Utterly damning yet very “reasonable” piece on Rhee here. I agree with every word by Kahlenberg but I’d like to add that folks on the left, in particular unions, need to call out so-called Dems, who are either tacitly or explicitly aligning themselves with her. Her biggest political brokers are Dems! Posted via […]

One challenge facing observers of the uprisings spreading across north Africa and the Middle East is to read them as not so many repetitions of the past but as original experiments that open new political possibilities, relevant well beyond the region, for freedom and democracy. Indeed, our hope is that through this cycle of struggles […]

Dear Jews who may have been sitting near me and my friends in Connecticut College’s Harris dining hall fall semester, 1989, Sorry for making anti-Semitic slurs. It was an honest mistake. As a group, we would never have wanted to say anything to offend anyone along racial or ethnic lines. But that fall, we’d taken […]

via en.wikipedia.org “Shia Crescent” is a term that we will all be familiar with very soon. I’m not sure how much analytic power it has but it will be the surd in every single article regarding Mid-East politics. I can almost guarantee it. For instance: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/world/middleeast/24saudis.html?hp Posted via email from sam han’s posterous

via guardian.co.uk Hallward is exceptional as a commentator on Deleuze and as an expert on Haiti. Quite good on the Middle East also as you can see. Posted via email from sam han’s posterous

via wordandfilm.com Kind of major! Posted via email from sam han’s posterous

via graphics8.nytimes.com USA! USA! We’re the best at everything, including leaving our poor way poorer than our rich. H/T: http://twitter.com/iKnewdles/ Posted via email from sam han’s posterous

Hawking contra Philosophy Christopher Norris presents a case for the defence. Stephen Hawking recently fluttered the academic dovecotes by writing in his new book The Grand Design – and repeating to an eager company of interviewers and journalists – that philosophy as practised nowadays is a waste of time and philosophers a waste of space. […]

via continental-philosophy.org Posted via email from sam han’s posterous