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...writer named Jean-Baptiste Botul on the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant. But Botul, it turns out, is not a real person - he's a fictional character created five years ago by Frédéric Pagès, a journalist at the French satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné. Using Botul as a pseudonym, Pagès published a verbose book on Kant in 1999, which was intended to be a playful dig at French intellectuals. "Everyone knew it was a joke," says Pierre Assouline, author of The Republic of Books, a blog published...
Indeed, Obama’s speech speaks to a real, often ignored, distinction between those who think of the world “morally” and those who don’t. It’s an old canard that lumping things in moral categories necessitates a conservative mindset. Some conservatives think this way, and so do some liberals, like Obama. The latter camp, on the other hand, is not “immoral,” but rather “amoral”—for better or worse, it simply doesn?...
...Help Clinton" fax to the troops. There is no Republican health-care alternative in 2009. The same people who rail against a government takeover of health care tried to enforce a government takeover of Terri Schiavo's end-of-life decisions. And when Palin floated the "death panel" canard, the number of prominent Republicans who rose up to call her out could be counted on one hand...
Harman stridently denied the accusations, which were based on anonymous sources and later reported by the New York Times. "These claims are an outrageous and recycled canard, and have no basis in fact," she said in a statement. As it suggests, this isn't the first time she's been forced to contend with them. In 2006, TIME reported that the FBI and Justice Department were investigating Harman's "quiet but aggressive" campaign to persuade Pelosi to tap her for a prestigious Intelligence post. Harman repudiated that report, saying she was unaware of any investigation into her AIPAC ties...
...maybe - the whole thing is just a canard, the backlash against a wave of political correctness that swept the U.S. in the late '90s, resulting in some strange new concessions to cultural sensitivity: cities insisting on calling the telltale conifers "holiday trees," efforts to ban the pleasantry "Merry Christmas" and crackdowns on the use of holiday nativity scenes and other religious iconography. But to many, the War on Christmas is a hyperbolic construct that blows the problem out of proportion. "There is no war on Santa," Michelle Goldberg wrote on Salon.com in 2005. "What there is, rather, is the burgeoning...