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This entire issue is devoted to a religious memoir by David Zucker. It shows what intellectuals do with their time other than teaching classes and taking out the garbage and writing articles for professional magazines. Their main activity, I think, is to turn over in their minds some perennial ideas and over the years come to reformulate those ideas to their satisfaction, also taking satisfaction in thinking about how they got from one place to another. That is their true biography.
By the way, the offer of a t-shirt for a short piece on the matrix or character of a city, as that is outlined in the recent piece on The Cultural Ticker entitled "The Tourist's Eye", still holds.
The purpose of this e-journal is to use in tandem the techniques of literary criticism and social structural analysis to illuminate American politics and the various institutions in American society and sometimes matters more global, like religion or war, by turning an eye on the events and objects and performances that are considered art and entertainment, those defined broadly enough to include whatever is covered in newspapers and other media. Another concern is to pick up the texture of social life, both in the United States and in general, through the analysis of those events, objects and performances that are to be found in everyday life. |
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The Political Ticker
Political Presences
- August 26, 2008
Rhetoric on the Op Ed Page
- August 25, 2008
Two Weak Presidential Candidates
- August 23, 2008
Georgia and the Albright Doctrine
- August 11, 2008
Birenbaum on Health Uninsurance Anxieties
- August 4, 2008
Goodling and Pakistan
- July 31, 2008
Previous Political Tickers
The Obama Age
-July 28, 2008
The Return of Jesse Jackson
-July 13, 2008
Candidate Flip-Flops
-July 4, 2008
Conservatives and Habeas Corpus
-June 28, 2008
Social Scandals and Social Problems
-June 16, 2008
Birenbaum on Framing Health Care Reform
-June 5, 2008
Journalists Keep their Secrets
-June 3, 2008
The Meeting of the Democratic Rules and Bylaws Committee
-May 31, 2008
Obama Won Week Two
-May 29, 2008
McCain Wins Week One
-May 18, 2008
The Importance of the West Virginia Primary
-May 14, 2008
Obama Triumphant
-May 7, 2008
Obama Kamikazed
-May 3, 2008
The Pennsylvania Primary Two-Step
-April 23, 2008
The Scandal of the Generals
-April 20, 2008
Obama's "Bitterness" Slur
-April 15, 2008
Hillary on Leno
-April 10, 2008
Obama on Race
-March 23, 2008
The Amateur Democrat
-March 20, 2008
The Reverend Wright Scandal
-March 17, 2008
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The Cultural Ticker
Americans at the Chinese Olympics
- August 18, 2008
McCain and Schmidt
- August 12, 2008
The Olympics Pageant in Peking
- August 9, 2008
A Tourist
- July 19, 2008
Anne Hathaway and John McCain
- July 7, 2008
Seymour Hersh Again
- July 3, 2008
Previous Cultural Tickers
Ice on Mars
-June 26, 2008
Al-Hurra
-June 24, 2008
Medical Etiquette
-June 12, 2008
A Taste for "Lost Horizon"
-April 4, 2008
Novels and Memoirs
-March 26, 2008
Reading "People" Magazine
-March 22, 2008
The Spitzer Scandal
-March 12, 2008
Ethnic and Gender Dynamics in the Democratic Race
-March 2, 2008
The Clemens Case
-February 15, 2008
The Paradox of Political Celebrity
-January 27, 2008
Sexual Politics in New Hampshire
-January 8, 2008
Gluck's Enlightenment
-December 28, 2007
Levine and Birenbaum on the Mitchell Report
-December 14, 2007
Roth's "Exit Ghost"
-October 21, 2007
Al Gore and Doris Lessing
-October 15, 2007
Ego in Situ
-October 12, 2007
Fred and Ginger in Love
-October 6, 2007
Ted Lonerghan's Visa Hell
-October 4, 2007
The Wide World of Interviews
-September 19, 2007
Minimally Adequate Teaching
-September 9, 2007
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