RIP: Norm Geras
I am sorry to report that Norman Geras has died. Geras was a blogger from 2003 on, and instrumental in helping out other bloggers back in the days when blogging was new and very exciting. He was the man I … Continue reading →
I am sorry to report that Norman Geras has died. Geras was a blogger from 2003 on, and instrumental in helping out other bloggers back in the days when blogging was new and very exciting. He was the man I … Continue reading →
I thought perhaps I might get your attention with that title. Now that Norm has come out of the closet as a “Desperate Housewives” fan (or at least, a viewer), I feel it’s only right to show solidarity (Solidarity Forever, … Continue reading →
In a recent post, Norman Geras wrote: And yet it is almost de rigeur amongst people of liberal and left outlook, today, to use as representative of what we should fear in the way of a possible return of the … Continue reading →
You may already be familiar with a recent incident at Evergreen State College in Washington state that resembles so many other incidents at colleges lately. At Evergreen, an angry mob of students confronted a professor for standing against racism, and … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a slightly-edited repeat of a previous post.] When blogger Andrew Sullivan bit the blogging dust and quit, I took special note of his departure for personal reasons, because you might actually say that it’s actually because of … Continue reading →
Every now and then I lose something and can’t find it, or it takes me a long time to find it. My favorite earring fell off in my car, and seemed to completely disappear. Several years later I found it … Continue reading →
So, Andrew Sullivan has finally bit the blogging dust and quit. You might say, “Who cares?” I don’t, particularly; it’s been a long, long time since I’ve been a reader of his. Sullivan went off the deep end prior to … Continue reading →
I was looking for something else last night and instead came across this post from early in my days as a blogger, nearly ten years ago. It was written in answer to one of those memes that used to be … Continue reading →
A group of bloggers and others on the Left have recently composed, signed, and disseminated this document, known as “The Euston Manifesto.” Prominent blogger and Marxist professor Norman Geras was highly involved in the writing of the Manifesto, and has … Continue reading →
I think I know my way around the blogosphere, but I keep making new discoveries–new, that is, to me. The latest is Oliver Kamm, a self-described leftist who blogs here. Kamm–whom I found via Austin Bay’s link to this Guardian … Continue reading →
I was reading Marc Cooper’s post entitled “Slobbering Over Slobo,” in which Cooper expresses sympathy neither with Milosevic nor with those who apologize for him. Cooper, who is what Norm Geras might refer to as a “principled leftist,” also takes … Continue reading →
[Please note that this is the most recent entry in an as-yet-unfinished series entitled “A mind is a difficult thing to change,” in which I describe the process of my political change and discuss political change in general. The posts … Continue reading →