How a Speech Won the Cold War – New York Times

02Mar06

NYT Op-Ed piece about Khruschev: How a Speech Won the Cold War – New York Times By WILLIAM TAUBMAN FIFTY years ago today, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave a “secret speech” at the 20th Communist Party Congress that changed both his country and the world. By denouncing Stalin, whose God-like status had helped to […]

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Looking for Paradoxes

02Mar06

In an NYT Op-Ed piece, Matthew Pearl talks about the recent Larry Summers eviction at Harvard and ties it to larger historical developments. He starts out normally enough: How the Liberal Arts Got That Way – New York Times By MATTHEW PEARL BEFORE Lawrence Summers announced his resignation as president of Harvard on Tuesday, the […]

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Staralfur — Sigur Rós

02Mar06

Currently playing on my iTunes: Staralfur by Sigur Rós. Its a nice, haunting song (Epitonic will even let you legally download it), though the more uppity types might find it (as always) pandering or trite. One way to identify the uppity types 😉 is by their unfaltering admiration of Springsteen — I think the thing […]

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