Storming Pacifica: revising my view of Pacifica history, July 22, 1999
His Master's Voice [August 18, 2009. The response to my memoir, My Life at Pacifica, has been so strong that I am posting an essay I wrote while an internal civil war was taking place between factions...
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Medusa The following is an excerpt from Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival, chapter two (slightly revised). I did not know when I wrote it how active Harvard...
View ArticleThe Numbers Game, sadism, and the Decline of Magic
The “real” John Murrell One of the virtues of the progressive movement in America was the increased deployment of statistics (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics). Before that, the political...
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Graham Nash photoassemblage This blog is about the almost universal use of the term “the Other” to designate unwarranted prejudice in the perpetrator of [ThoughtCrimes]. Presumably, the bigot views his...
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