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Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of theAfro-American Studies Department, delivered themain address. Gates concentrated on the career ofthe essayist and novelist James Baldwin. Accordingto Gates, Baldwin's work has continued relevanceto the issues of race relations King dealt with...
...sees God not as a transcendent Other, giving us texts or examples, but as the ground of our being. God, the Romantics believe, is within us; the purpose of religion is to enable us to make contact with him (or her). As Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Unitarian minister turned essayist and lecturer, put it, "That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen." A century after Emerson, his heirs have decided that self-fortification can come through sex -- gay or straight, married or un-. Today's Romantics...
Finally, of course, there are the academic enforcers of political correctness, or "p.c.," whose efforts have received widespread publicity but who remain, in many cases, undaunted. In Vermont the distinguished essayist Edward Hoagland was abruptly dismissed as a part-time lecturer at Bennington College. The reason? Student activists convinced school authorities that an article Hoagland had written for Esquire, in which he argued that the spread of AIDS was owing partly to a "gale of often icy promiscuity," was homophobic and therefore deserved severe punishment. To be sure, Hoagland got his teaching job at Bennington back after an investigation showed...
There are some flaws. Rolling Stone magazine's premier essayist has spliced together discrete essays, making the book more a collection of pieces than a unified whole. At times he grows as shrill as those he skewers. Nonetheless, O'Rourke manages to ask all the explosive questions -- Why are taxes so high? Why doesn't government work? How did things get so bad? -- that tap into the deep vein of discontent running through America today. Parliament of Whores may not spark a revolution, but it is one of the few books on civic affairs worth reading from cover to cover...
...immense empire of profit." Spurred by Lang, who has gone so far as to appoint a rock-'n'-roll minister to encourage French rockers, non-French programming is limited to 40% of available air time on the state-run radio stations. But even Alain Finkelkraut, the highbrow French essayist and critic who is no friend of pop culture, concedes, "As painful as it may be for the French to bear, their rock stars just don't have the same appeal as the British or the Americans. Claude Francois can't compete with the Rolling Stones...