Tag Archives: Politics

100 Days Citizen Test

By CircleReader | April 29th, 2009
On President Obama's hundredth day: five questions for citizens.
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RCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009

By CircleReader | January 18th, 2009
Links on culture, reading, and the web.
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Exhilaration, Exhaustion, Tennyson

By CircleReader | November 21st, 2008
"The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world." -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Passing of Arthur
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Intermission Music

By CircleReader | November 4th, 2008
"I have to admit, it's getting better..."
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Wisdom versus Winning

By CircleReader | November 3rd, 2008
After all this, is your world not larger than it was before? Show me you both are looking for wisdom and understanding, rather than victory.
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Letter to a Young Voter

By CircleReader | November 2nd, 2008
It's late in the election cycle, and I do not know if you have yet registered to vote, but I exhort you as my fellow citizen, my political friend, to go and vote. And after that, to participate in other ways, by reading, commenting, contributing, serving, listening, speaking, advocating. Politics grows from the practice of everyday life in the presence of strangers and friends. It doesn't matter whether you have everything figured out yet -- just participate. Be devoted -- make a sacrifice of devotion -- to the city and nation in which you have found yourself. They are your family, and they need you.
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Another Halloween

By CircleReader | October 31st, 2008
It's that time of year again, when our culture takes a holiday originating in fall harvest and the passing of generations, and turns it into a celebration of imagination, childhood, community, misrule, aggression, terror, & trauma (as well as another opportunity for a capitalist binge).
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My Kind of Expert

By CircleReader | October 24th, 2008
"The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I learned at the feet of the most leftist professors at Yale and am learning again from Sarah Palin during the Vice Presidential debate, and I find that very disorienting."
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Math Against Tyranny — Understanding the Electoral College

By CircleReader | October 17th, 2008
"Experts, scholars, deep thinkers could make errors on electoral reform," Alan Natapoff decided, "but nine-year-olds could explain to a Martian why the Yankees lost in 1960, and why it was right. And both have the same underlying abstract principle."
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Dashed Hopes (or, Nonsense in Nashville)

By CircleReader | October 8th, 2008
Richard Harwood: "When this campaign started, many people, including myself, thought it was a golden opportunity for a real debate between competing visions for the nation's future. Remember that?"
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