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23 Aug 09
Rick Perlstein -- Birthers, Health Care Hecklers and the Rise of Right-Wing Rage - washingtonpost.com
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The orchestration of incivility happens, too, and it is evil. Liberal power of all sorts induces an organic and crazy-making panic in a considerable number of Americans, while people with no particular susceptibility to existential terror -- powerful elites -- find reason to stoke and exploit that fear. And even the most ideologically fair-minded national media will always be agents of cosmopolitanism: something provincials fear as an outside elite intent on forcing different values down their throats.
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If 1963 were 2009, the woman who assaulted Adlai Stevenson would be getting time on cable news to explain herself. That, not the paranoia itself, makes our present moment uniquely disturbing.
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Rick Perlstein -- Birthers, Health Care Hecklers and the Rise of Right-Wing Rage - washingtonpost.com
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So the birthers, the anti-tax tea-partiers, the town hall hecklers -- these are "either" the genuine grass roots or evil conspirators staging scenes for YouTube? The quiver on the lips of the man pushing the wheelchair, the crazed risk of carrying a pistol around a president -- too heartfelt to be an act. The lockstep strangeness of the mad lies on the protesters' signs -- too uniform to be spontaneous. They are both. If you don't understand that any moment of genuine political change always produces both, you can't understand America, where the crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy, and where elites exploit the crazy for their own narrow interests.
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The instigation is always the familiar litany: expansion of the commonweal to empower new communities, accommodation to internationalism, the heightened influence of cosmopolitans and the persecution complex of conservatives who can't stand losing an argument.
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Thoughts in a Haystack: Checking Reality
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Eugenie Scott (of the NCSC) says to Ben Stein: "The most important group we work with is members of the faith community because the best kept secret in this controversy is that Catholics and mainstream Protestants are okay on evolution."
17 Jul 09
The New Ambassadors of Science § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
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Scientists should support dialog on the intersection of science and religion, if only out of respect for the plurality of beliefs out there. But when BioLogos Foundation’s language and staff bios represent nothing but evangelical Christianity, it’s hard to muster an ecumenical spirit.
12 Jul 09
To accommodate or not to accommodate that is the question. « The Renaissance Mathematicus
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No one has the right to claim that they and only they are right.
20 Apr 08
The Web Difference » Blog Archive » Is the Web different? And should teaching be objective?
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But it’s different with teaching. For one thing, teachers and students are in a power relationship.
Is Twitter bad for you? at dougbelshaw.com
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