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Fedora Aside, Why Indiana Jones Is An Emblem Of Americanism

After the first big action sequence in the new Indiana Jones movie, the camera stares from behind Jones as he regards, helplessly, one of the monstrous icons of the 1950s; after the last big action sequence in the film, the camera stares from behind ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, The New Republic,  31 May 2008

Will John McCain Undo A Half-Century Of U.S.-Led Internationalism?

The 1938 trade agreement reversed both the older American tradition of protective tariffs and the more recent, Depression-fostered stance of autarky. Its architect, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, always meant the agreement to amount to more than a ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, The New Republic,  5 May 2008

Because we like you.

Many thanks to the Crooked Timber collective for letting me mess about with their site for a week. Be excellent to each other. A preview of your comment will appear below as you type. You can use these tags:  ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, Crooked Timber,  25 Apr 2008

Godwin this.

played an active part in transforming the university constitution in line with the “leadership principle” and in introducing the outward forms of Hitlerism (e.g. the Hitler salute…) into academic life … he penalized or sacrificed persons who were ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, Crooked Timber,  25 Apr 2008

I never feel like somebody’s watching me.

Speaking of public intellectuals, Siva Vaidhyanathan gave a talk here a couple days ago on privacy and surveillance, developing the ideas here. (For one thing, he now prefers “Cryptopticon” to “Nonopticon.”) Siva thinks we should stop our Foucauldian ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, Crooked Timber,  24 Apr 2008

Airmiles?

There are all kinds of games you can play with this List of Top 100 Public Intellectuals, including Watch People’s Heads Explode! As a guest here I believe myself entitled to say, really? No Timberites? Tchah. The stated criteria: “Candidates must be ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, Crooked Timber,  23 Apr 2008

“Let it rip.”

1“Text of Premier MacDonald’s Address Broadcast to Nation,” NYT 4/23/1933, p. 24. 2“France is Firm on Gold,” NYT 4/23/1933, p. 27. 3Anne O’Hare McCormick, “The New Deal in World Affairs,” NYT 4/23/1933, p. SM1. 4“Inflation Favored by 46 Senators,” ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, Crooked Timber,  22 Apr 2008

Academic Freedom: Some Resources

request, a quick bibliography on academic freedom of the top of my… well, not the top of my head, but the top of my EndNote file. With some annotations. I tried to do hanging indents, but WordPress defeated me. Recommended starting points on academic ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, Crooked Timber,  22 Apr 2008

Can anyone play this game?

A month after their meeting, de Grazia and her colleagues circulated an open letter to Bollinger…. charg[ing] that Bollinger had “failed to make a vigorous defense of core principles on which the university is founded”…. [H]e was more surprised and ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, Crooked Timber,  21 Apr 2008

Right Now, We Need Liberals

Barack Obama is a liberal Hillary Clinton wants you to know this now; if Obama gets the nomination, John McCain assuredly will, too. "Liberal" has had bad connotations ever since the Vietnam era, when conservatives successfully branded their opponents ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, The New Republic,  4 Apr 2008

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