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Busy day today, so I direct you to these fine posts:

  • In yet another vindication of the yoosta-bees who deride liberals who have actually remained liberals for failing to perceive the Bush administration’s profound commitment to freedom and individual rights, Seb notes that the United States has changed its position on whether to give UN consultative status to gay rights groups, joining the following bastions of liberal democracy: Cameroon, China, Cuba, Iran, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, Senegal, Sudan, and Zimbabwe. There was something about freedom I think Bush doesn’t know…
  • Publius has a very good discussion about what I thought was the most interesting part of Fukuyama’s article: his comparison of the (his word) “Marxism” of The End of History and the Last Man and the “Leninism” of the neocons. As Publius points out, that’s odd because TEOH didn’t have a particularly materialist conception of historical development, and moreover didn’t have a Marxist teleology; more than many critics of that book realized, he had a Straussian ambivalence about what he saw as the inevitable triumph of modernism.
  • Dr. Prof. Mike Adams, Ph.D, vistits Penn State University. Hilarity ensues. The (good) Michael makes an important point about the declining share of state funding (and corresponding increasing tuition) at most “public” universities.
  • Revisionist of the day: Dan Okrent.
  • Thad points us to a very interesting essay by Alex Ross about Theodor Adorno’s music criticism. Although I’m sure gmack and others more versed in the Frankfurt School will set me straight, but my verdict about the music criticism of the man who in “[a] 1933 essay entitled “Farewell to Jazz” begins by noting that radio broadcasts of jazz have been banned in Nazi Germany, and goes on to say, in so many words, ‘Good riddance'” is pretty much “racist and classist know-nothing.”
  • Oddly enough, when it can’t be used to recycle wingnut talking points Mickey Kaus’ theory of universal genetic revulsion for Teh Gay mysteriously vainshes
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