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Gingrich, Bin Laden, and Issac Asimov
Apparently, the megalomaniac tendencies that many perceive in Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich are inspired by Iassac Asimov: If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, Newt Gingrich is from the planet Trantor, a fictional world created by Isaac … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics, USA
Tagged Books, Foundation, Gingrich, Issac Asimov, Osama Bin Laden, terrrorism
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Niall Ferguson threatens to sue Mishra
Oh dear. We now hear that Ferguson is threatening legal action, which rather undermines my point about the classiness of ‘counter-speech’ over legal threats. Continue reading
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Tagged Books, libel, Libel Reform, Literature, London Review of Books, Niall Ferguson, Pankaj Mishra
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Linklog for 7th June to 21st June
My del.icio.us links: 7th June to 21st June Is Google Making Us Stupid? – As we are drained of our “inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance,” Foreman concluded, we risk turning into “‘pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect … Continue reading