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A Wacky Saga of Life, Literature, and Intellectuals of a Certain Vintage
The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet tr. by Sam Taylor Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 359 pp., 2017 "Life is not a novel. Or...
David Matthews
Apr 26, 20188 min read
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Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, April 21, 2018
To say that I am no fan of UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is to understate by a factor of several. The best that can be said of her is that...
David Matthews
Apr 21, 20183 min read
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Tom Nichols and the death of expertise; or, experts and the rest of us (Part 2 of 2)
Part 1 of this two-part essay and review of The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols was published on April 17, 2018. Tom Nichols tells us...
David Matthews
Apr 19, 201811 min read
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Tom Nichols and the death of expertise; or, experts and the rest of us (Part 1 of 2)
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols Oxford University Press [2017],...
David Matthews
Apr 17, 201818 min read
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Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, April 14, 2018
A draft for this post composed yesterday prior to 6 pm PDT opened with an expression of fear that the president will bumble and bluster...
David Matthews
Apr 14, 20185 min read
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Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, April 7, 2018
That migrant caravan has the president in such a tizzy he's calling in the military or the National Guard or something to deal with this...
David Matthews
Apr 7, 20186 min read
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