Postmodernist Historiography “On the March” in Student Demonstrations for Palestine
Jan 3, 2024
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It seemed a logical question. They were both in their 60s, and they just met. But she had never been on a cruise.
My first wife. I wasn't much of a reader then, but she recommended Atlas Shrugged. She never recommended a book before, but she thought I'd like it. I thought, well that's curious. So I went ahead and started reading it. And the more I read it, the more my attitude changed.
During the decade of Cultural Revolution, people experienced horrific events that made their blood boil and eyes tear. People’s suffering, like DR’s father in the hands of the political hooligans, was heartbreaking.
Physically, a human being is a rather weak, pathetic creature. We do not possess the strength of the bear, the cunning claws of the tiger, nor the wings of the steely-eyed hawk. All we truly possess that is of any use is an accident called self-awareness.
Federal funding for organizations like Helping Hands for Africa thus represents an unalloyed good, even though the returns are measured in lives saved, rather than dollars made.
On the political side, I have always maintained that we must look both at what Nietzsche’s political
Editor’s Note: Alfred Kentigern Siewers is associate professor of English at Bucknell University and 2018–2019 William E. Simon visiting
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We note with great sorrow the loss of David Mayer, who died November 23, 2019 at 63, of a lengthy illness.
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