Word: subject
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mark Gevisser's 935-page biography, Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred, addresses that mystery with comprehensive authority. Gevisser, a South African journalist, began researching his subject in 1999 and has consulted hundreds of Mbeki's friends and acquaintances, studied thousands of documents and interviewed the President himself six times. His book traces Mbeki's life from his birth in 1942 as the son of communist pioneers in the Transkei, through his 28 years in exile in London and Moscow, to his two terms in office. It also illuminates the strange mix of economic liberalism and headstrong ideology that permeates...
...think that book crystallized and gathered an audience who may not have known about each other. I think there were other authors who had written about the subject but never gathered that audience. Maybe it was the story [that was] was telling, but something about it clicked...
Despite Cutler’s interest in health care economics and policy, no courses were offered in the subject during his time at Harvard. Cutler has no formal medical training, attributing his knowledge to “months and months in basements of libraries learning about medicine...
...Dines’ shock-and-awe tactics made for an entertaining two hours, but she is hardly a beacon of insight on the subject of porn and culture. Hers is the wearying rhetoric of the worst sort of feminism, a strange collision of puritanical morality and radical politics. She’s right that American society is increasingly sexualized (though we remain much more publicly chaste than many other Westernized countries), but to attribute a loosening of female sexual mores to porn is illogical, sexist, and degrading. For those who ascribe to Dines’ school of thought, a woman...
...Dines told her Harvard audience not to study academic writing on this subject, because it is out of touch with reality. This is a funny assertion, as this activist’s own methodology leaves something to be desired. Aside from numbers on the amount of money that is spent on pornography each year, Dines’ presentation was completely without statistics. She provided only protracted anecdotes about celebrities like Anna Nicole Smith (whom she wistfully explained “died of a broken heart”) and in-your-face images. She cited a lack of interest and funding...