Eating Poetry (XLI) – After Thanksgiving

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• Grasping Reality with Both Hands
  Michael Kinsley's Repeated Factual Errors: Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?: Dan Drezner is sick of trying to reason with Michael Kinsley: >Sometimes a factual error is just...
  
• Elder of Ziyon
  Thursday Links Part 2: From Ian: Khaled Abu Toameh: Who is Really Desecrating Holy Sites? Those who are now using the visit...
  
• Ezra Klein
  Jon Gruber on one reason to keep taxing corporate income: MIT economist Jon Gruber writes in: Nice piece on the corporate tax. But you don’t mention on...
  
• The Rubin Report
  Saudi Arabia/United States: Strange Bedfellows in the Middle East: By Barry RubinWhat is the difference between Saudi and U.S. policy in the Arabic-speaking Middle Eas...
  
• normblog
  Painting the transition (by Ian Holliday): [At the University of Hong Kong, my friend Ian Holliday is staging an art exhibition, 'Painting the...
  
• The Long War Journal
  MUJAO suicide bombers hit uranium mine, barracks in Niger: View Larger Map A pair of suicide bombers from the al Qaeda-linked Movement for Tawhid [Oneness or...
  
• Generation Y
  
• Crooked Timber
  Call for Participation: Doctoral Workshop: I’m very excited to be hosting a doctoral workshop this summer on “Developing Best Pract...
  
• Jeffrey Goldberg
  Signing Off: So, for whatever reason (psychological, I have to assume), I haven't formally signed-off from…&nbs...
  
• Two Weeks Notice
  U.S. Influence in Latin America: We need a moratorium on op-eds proclaiming the end of U.S. influence in Latin America. They're usual...
  
• Harry's Place
  Best wishes to Norm Geras: Norm Geras of normblog, one of the most thoughtful and decent (in the non-sneering sense) people in...
  
• Dissent
  Scenes from finals week: Some of us received gifts from grateful students. This one is a brass pen holder whose base is the s...
  
• It's Complicated
  Judith Butler and 9/11 and How We Grieve: It is paradoxical that on 9/11, when we grieve for the victims of an atrocious act of terrorism, Jud...
  
• Jeff Weintraub
  Henri Barkey suggests that, on Syria, Turkey should put its money where its mouth is: In an interview with NBC News a few weeks ago, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared...
  
• CiF Watch
  Guardian buries the lead about extremists who likely influenced Woolwich terrorist: Yesterday, in a savage terror attack, a British soldier was hacked to death in Woolwich, south-eas...
  
• Terry Glavin: Chronicles & Dissent
  Syria: Paint it Black.: From my cubbyhole at the Ottawa Citizen: As Syria descends ever deeper into an abyss of barbarism a...