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20 Jul, 2022

An Apology from the Editor

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The website has been neglected for over ten days.  Initially, the cause was the Summer Seminar, which went beautifully–more on that in a day or two.  The past five days, another round of COVID, this one comparatively mild, has taken me out of the picture.  Today, I am no longer content to lie on the sofa, coughing and groaning as I listen to a reading of The Day of the Jackal, but I am actually doing proof-reading and and attending to business that is not too taxing to my befuddled brain.

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10 Jun, 2022

The Talkies: One-offs

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Four of these movies are genuine anomalies for their makers. The fifth is the best film by a very famous and successful director-writer whose other movies—and I’ve seen nearly all of them—reliably disappoint me. 

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10 Jun, 2022

The Great Revolution: III: Equality, Part A

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As a virtue expressed in Aristotelian terms, it is the mean between the character that invests everything into the distinction between me-and-mine and everything else and the character that rejects all distinction.  In Jacobin terms, however, liberty, equality, and fraternity represent either or both of these three baneful extremes.