Generative Anthropology Summer Conference 2011, May 19-21
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By adam, on December 10th, 2008 | My first impulse upon reading Eric Gans’ latest Chronicle, “The End of Ideology,” was to take issue with its central claim: “that Obama’s election weakens the power of victimary thinking, both in the US and abroad,” simply on the grounds of why quit when you’re ahead? But then it struck me: how in the [...]
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By adam, on December 4th, 2008 | While commenting on a political blog recently (a habit I contracted during the election campaign and now find it hard to break) I was led to repeat an argument for the invasion of Iraq in 2003 that I don’t remember making for a long time: setting aside all the legalistic reasons or the imminence [...]
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