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...speak at Harvard ( News, “In About-Face, English Dept. Re-Invites Anti-Israeli Poet,” Nov. 20). Paulin had been invited to Cambridge in his capacity as a poet, not as a political thinker. He did not come here to impart an anti-Semitic manifesto...
...Kaczynski was certainly a math prodigy of sorts, skipped two grades and so on. But mathematicians seem to concur that his research topic, boundary functions, was a backwater, a narrow field of limited interest. As for his image as a political visionary, if you spend some time with the manifesto and the works that inspired its writing, you’ll see how unoriginal a document it is. It’s a mix of borrowed ideas and personal pathology (e.g. things he’s mad at his parents about). When Kaczynski was a student at Michigan, he decided...
...homosexuals; in San Francisco. At a time when few men or women dared to identify themselves publicly as homosexual, Hay pioneered the notion that the group was a minority facing prejudice and entitled to equal rights. An ardent American communist, he authored the gay-rights movement's first political manifesto, later known as The Call...
Clearly this e-mail is more joke than geopolitical manifesto, but an important point still needs to be made about the grievance underlying its humor. Let us assume for the sake of argument that Bush really does care only for his cronies’ interests, that all the other reasons he has mentioned for military action in Iraq are mere show. This may well be true; but if so, the question should be not why Bush wants to invade Iraq, but why we do or do not support this action...
...August 25, Oxford University will publish "Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century America" by former Senator Gary Hart. Says Kirkus, "Scholarly dissertation meets populist manifesto in politico Hart's case for increased citizen involvement in government...Despite some pie-in-the-sky elements, the argument merits discussion, and the prescriptions are delivered coherently and effectively...