John McCain has chosen Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate. Via Cass Sunstein at The Plank, I see she has interesting views on global warming.
What is your take on global warming and how is it affecting our country?
A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Palin on Global Warming
Posted in U.S. Politics on August 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
End zones
Posted in Film and documentary, tagged alfonso cuaron, children of men, memento mori, y tu mama tambien on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few years back, I came across the interesting observation — I think it was in an essay on Sophia Coppola — that most directors address only a single theme or question across all the movies they make in their careers, using each film to come closer to an answer they’ll be satisfied with. This [...]
Many a true word
Posted in Film and documentary, History, Philosophy, tagged Dark Knight, Guy Debord, Situationist International, the Joker on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As superhero movies go, The Dark Knight is certainly the best of the bunch — although why Christian Bale’s perfectly normal voice had to descend to a guttural rasp every time he put on his bat helmet escapes me, and one must also assign a few demerit points to the filmmakers for portraying the Russian [...]
Solzhenitsyn as a Soviet Writer
Posted in Arts and Aesthetics, tagged Solzhenitsyn on August 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn had a greater impact on the world than any other writer of the last century. You’d have to go back to the age of Victor Hugo or Harriet Beecher Stowe to find writers who shook history with a comparable force. He, more than anyone else, made the hidden history of the gulag public [...]
John Bolton’s correlation of forces
Posted in Foreign affairs, History, U.S. Politics, tagged correlation of forces, john bolton on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It used to be said by security analysts, back in the days of the Cold War, that the Soviet Union, though benighted in so many other ways, managed to maintain a highly sophisticated and realistic view of the balance of power across the various geographies over which it was in contention with the United States. [...]
The Rise of Comics Scholarship: the Role of University Press of Mississippi
Posted in Arts and Aesthetics, Popular culture, tagged comics scholarship, Seetha Srinivasan, Tom Inge on August 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Rodolphe Töpffer’s work as reprinted by University Press of Mississippi.
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Scholarship often flourishes unexpected and of the way places, tucked in the corner of remote cities and universities. For some reason, St. Louis was the site of the Thomist renaissance and contemporary Hegelian thought has made a home for itself in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During the [...]
