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Even as the country was devouring the “Harry Potter” novels, critics like Safire and Harold Bloom, the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale, were trying to get people to spit them out. Safire admits in his essay that he enjoys “Harry Potter,” just as he enjoys “short films, featuring anthropomorphic porcine cartoon characters.” Bloom ends his critique with the backhanded “hope that my discontent is not merely a highbrow snobbery, or a nostalgia for a more literate fantasy to beguile...
...only time Fox News is fair and balanced is when Williams is in the mix. Both on the airways and in many excellent books, he always demonstrates fairness and courage. These traits were evident in his timely and provocative essay. Williams reminds us that racism is still part of American politics and convincingly demonstrates the bankruptcy of the Republican campaign rhetoric that promotes its institution. It is good to see that he is a TIME contributor, and I look forward to many more of his insights...
Thanks for Williams' essay. It is indeed time that Silvestre Reyes, Charles Rangel, John Conyers and other minority chairs in Congress get respect. They deserve it even if they choose to diverge from the centrist, play-the-game strategy that seems to be the very basis of Williams' defense of them...
...brilliant essay on exchanging credits for carbon use and child abuse, Kinsley has approached the paradoxical level of irony that Jonathan Swift achieved with A Modest Proposal. The logic is flawless, the intent is benign, yet the solution proposed is so repugnant. Perhaps that is the true nature of capitalism...