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    <title>Leon Trotsky: If America Should Go Communist (1934)</title>
    <dc:date>2022-03-17T02:52:59+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Interesting to see L.T. insist on the importance of retaining the market mechanism, and even non-inflationary money (!).  And, of course, in the department of "the past is a foreign country":

"While the romantic numskulls of Nazi Germany are dreaming of restoring the old race of Europe’s Dark Forest to its original purity, or rather its original filth, you Americans, after taking a firm grip on your economic machinery and your culture, will apply genuine scientific methods to the problem of eugenics. Within a century, out of your melting pot of races there will come a new breed of men – the first worthy of the name of Man."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["More than a decade before the election of Donald Trump, vitriolic and dehumanizing rhetoric against migrants was already part of the national conversation. Situating the contemporary debate on immigration within America’s history of indigenous dispossession, chattel slavery, the Mexican-American War, and Jim Crow, Cristina Beltrán reveals white supremacy to be white democracy—a participatory practice of racial violence, domination, and exclusion that gave white citizens the right to both wield and exceed the law. Still, Beltrán sees cause for hope in growing movements for migrant and racial justice."

--- Not my usual thing, but I've met Beltran at workshops and been impressed by her, so.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS: MARGO JEFFERSON, THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS, DARRYL PINCKNEY, JOHN MCWHORTER, ORLANDO PATTERSON"

Long, but worthwhile.  (2020 publication of 2019 symposium.)]]></description>
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    <title>America’s Messiah Complex | The New Republic</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The author of the review seems altogether too close to idea that if the US isn't specially virtuous, then it is uniquely vicious.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It’s tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion—and the delusional psychologies that fuel them—have been a constant presence in American life for nearly as long as there’s been an America.
"In this sweeping book, Thomas Milan Konda traces the country’s obsession with conspiratorial thought from the early days of the republic to our own anxious moment. Conspiracies of Conspiracies details centuries of sinister speculations—from antisemitism and anti-Catholicism to UFOs and reptilian humanoids—and their often incendiary outcomes. Rather than simply rehashing the surface eccentricities of such theories, Konda draws from his unprecedented assemblage of conspiratorial writing to crack open the mindsets that lead people toward these self-sealing worlds of denial. What is distinctively American about these theories, he argues, is not simply our country’s homegrown obsession with them but their ongoing prevalence and virulence. Konda proves that conspiracy theories are no harmless sideshow. They are instead the dark and secret heart of American political history—one that is poisoning the bloodstream of an increasingly sick body politic."

--- Not sure how much is new here.]]></description>
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    <title>Republic of Lies | Anna Merlan | Macmillan</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-06T13:32:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250159052</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyond.
"American society has always been fertile ground for conspiracy theories, but with the election of Donald Trump, previously outlandish ideas suddenly attained legitimacy. Trump himself is a conspiracy enthusiast: from his claim that global warming is a Chinese hoax to the accusations of “fake news,” he has fanned the flames of suspicion.
"But it was not by the power of one man alone that these ideas gained new power. Republic of Lies looks beyond the caricatures of conspiracy theorists to explain their tenacity. Without lending the theories validity, Anna Merlan gives a nuanced, sympathetic account of the people behind them, across the political spectrum, and the circumstances that helped them take hold. The lack of a social safety net, inadequate education, bitter culture wars, and years of economic insecurity have created large groups of people who feel forgotten by their government and even besieged by it. Our contemporary conditions are a perfect petri dish for conspiracy movements: a durable, permanent, elastic climate of alienation and resentment. All the while, an army of politicians and conspiracy-peddlers has fanned the flames of suspicion to serve their own ends."

--- Review: [http://bactra.org/weblog/algae-2019-04.html#merlan]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/postapocalyptic-fantasies-in-antebellum-american-literature/0EAC020362CB6D2A2C6F9C712361B5E7#fndtn-information">
    <title>Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature by John Hay</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-06T02:43:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/postapocalyptic-fantasies-in-antebellum-american-literature/0EAC020362CB6D2A2C6F9C712361B5E7#fndtn-information</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Even before the Civil War, American writers were imagining life after a massive global catastrophe. For many, the blank slate of the American continent was instead a wreckage-strewn wasteland, a new world in ruins. Bringing together epic and lyric poems, fictional tales, travel narratives, and scientific texts, Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature reveals that US authors who enthusiastically celebrated the myths of primeval wilderness and virgin land also frequently resorted to speculations about the annihilation of civilizations, past and future. By examining such postapocalyptic fantasies, this study recovers an antebellum rhetoric untethered to claims for historical exceptionalism - a patriotic rhetoric that celebrates America while denying the United States a unique position outside of world history. As the scientific field of natural history produced new theories regarding biological extinction, geological transformation, and environmental collapse, American writers responded with wild visions of the ancient past and the distant future."]]></description>
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    <title>The Lynching Dot Map: One dot for every lynching victim in the US 1883-1930</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-21T23:37:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.charlieseguin.com/dot_map.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I can't decide if using this to teach about spatial point processes be good, or grossly insensitive.]]></description>
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    <title>Reconstructing Individualism</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-24T12:32:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://muse.jhu.edu/book/20502</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["America has a love-hate relationship with individualism. In Reconstructing Individualism, James Albrecht argues that our conceptions of individualism have remained trapped within the assumptions of classic liberalism. He traces an alternative genealogy of individualist ethics in four major American thinkers-Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, John Dewey, and Ralph Ellison. These writers' shared commitments to pluralism (metaphysical and cultural), experimentalism, and a melioristic stance toward value and reform led them to describe the self as inherently relational. Accordingly, they articulate models of selfhood that are socially engaged and ethically responsible, and they argue that a reconceived-or, in Dewey's term, "reconstructed"-individualism is not merely compatible with but necessary to democratic community. Conceiving selfhood and community as interrelated processes, they call for an ongoing reform of social conditions so as to educate and liberate individuality, and, conversely, they affirm the essential role individuality plays in vitalizing communal efforts at reform."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo28433484">
    <title>Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict, Neel</title>
    <dc:date>2018-06-05T15:46:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo28433484</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Over the last forty years, the human landscape of the United States has been fundamentally transformed. The metamorphosis is partially visible in the ascendance of glittering, coastal hubs for finance, infotech, and the so-called creative class. But this is only the tip of an economic iceberg, the bulk of which lies in the darkness of the declining heartland or on the dimly lit fringe of sprawling cities. This is America’s hinterland, populated by towering grain threshers and hunched farmworkers, where laborers drawn from every corner of the world crowd into factories and “fulfillment centers” and where cold storage trailers are filled with fentanyl-bloated corpses when the morgues cannot contain the dead.
"Urgent and unsparing, this book opens our eyes to America’s new heart of darkness. Driven by an ever-expanding socioeconomic crisis, America’s class structure is recomposing itself in new geographies of race, poverty, and production. The center has fallen. Riots ricochet from city to city led by no one in particular. Anarchists smash financial centers as a resurgent far right builds power in the countryside. Drawing on his direct experience of recent popular unrest, from the Occupy movement to the wave of riots and blockades that began in Ferguson, Missouri, Phil A. Neel provides a close-up view of this landscape in all its grim but captivating detail. Inaugurating the new Field Notes series, published in association with the Brooklyn Rail, Neel’s book tells the intimate story of a life lived within America’s hinterland."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://newrepublic.com/article/142450/war-hillbillies">
    <title>The War On Hillbillies | New Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-11T07:33:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://newrepublic.com/article/142450/war-hillbillies</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>appalachia something_about_america poverty photos</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker, Cramer</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-10T16:32:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo22879533.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall that brought thousands of protesters to Capitol Square, he was subsequently reelected. How could this happen? How is it that the very people who stand to benefit from strong government services not only vote against the candidates who support those services but are vehemently against the very idea of big government?
"With The Politics of Resentment, Katherine J. Cramer uncovers an oft-overlooked piece of the puzzle: rural political consciousness and the resentment of the “liberal elite.” Rural voters are distrustful that politicians will respect the distinct values of their communities and allocate a fair share of resources. What can look like disagreements about basic political principles are therefore actually rooted in something even more fundamental: who we are as people and how closely a candidate’s social identity matches our own. Using Scott Walker and Wisconsin’s prominent and protracted debate about the appropriate role of government, Cramer illuminates the contours of rural consciousness, showing how place-based identities profoundly influence how people understand politics, regardless of whether urban politicians and their supporters really do shortchange or look down on those living in the country.
"The Politics of Resentment shows that rural resentment—no less than partisanship, race, or class—plays a major role in dividing America against itself."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/my-muslim-fathers-faith-in-america">
    <title>My Muslim Father’s Faith in America - The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-25T19:39:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/my-muslim-fathers-faith-in-america</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It was during one of our late-evening tête-à-têtes before my freshman year that my father finally divulged his reasons for sending me to the United States.
"“Allah has blessed that country,” he told me. Knowing that such declarations were usually preludes to lengthier reflection, I assumed a ruminative posture and waited for him to continue. “One must wonder why Allah chose to bestow such abundance of wealth and glory on a nation of unbelievers,” he said. “Remember, they don’t worship Allah; they don’t pray five times a day like we do. And yet Allah continues to bestow his blessings on their country.” The reason, he said, was very simple: Americans were the ones doing Allah’s work, by steadfastly upholding the Islamic tenet of zakat—a form of alms-giving that makes up one of the Five Pillars of Islam. “Their government welcomes people who are seeking a better life,” my father said. “They shield and protect the weak, the poor, and the persecuted from all over the world, and, the most important of all, they support orphans and protect the rights of women, as instructed by the Prophet Muhammad in his last sermon.”
"Father was quick to remind me that, despite the enmity between the Reagan Administration and Ghana’s military leadership, “it was America, and not Saudi Arabia,” that sent shiploads of food to Ghanaians during the famine that struck our country in 1982. I was only twelve at the time, yet the image of bags of rice and corn and canned Dutch cheese, delivered to our local mosque with “u.s.a.i.d. from the american people” emblazoned in blue and red, remained vivid in my memory. “All of these are good deeds we Muslims are required to practice, but we have allowed the Americans and Europeans to lead in this effort,” my father said. “And that’s why they are blessed with peace and prosperity while we are afflicted with social distress and civil strife all over the Muslim world. If you think deeper, you’ll realize that Americans are the true followers of the Islamic doctrine of peace, charity, and respect for human dignity.”"

--- His father was not alone in this line of thinking.]]></description>
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    <title>James Fallows Journeys Across America - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-18T14:18:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/03/how-america-is-putting-itself-back-together/426882/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>something_about_america have_read</dc:subject>
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    <title>Day after day, Trump is making America smaller - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2016-06-05T23:37:36+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>My Dark California Dream - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-26T13:20:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/opinion/sunday/my-dark-california-dream.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>california something_about_america have_read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.democracyjournal.org/38/how-to-be-american-1.php?page=all">
    <title>Eric Liu for Democracy Journal: How to Be American</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-27T00:02:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.democracyjournal.org/38/how-to-be-american-1.php?page=all</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I always thought Hirsch had something of a point (cf. Gellner's _Nations and Nationalism_), but I am not sure about any of the ways in which this goes beyond Hirsch are improvements (beyond the need to be up to date and inclusive); Liu strikes me as a writer whom we ought to read with a strong suspicion that there is a catch.]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural_criticism cultural_transmission_of_cognitive_tools nationalism liu.eric hirsch.e.d. something_about_america us_politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://idlewords.com/2015/07/confronting_new_madrid.htm">
    <title>Confronting New Madrid (Idle Words)</title>
    <dc:date>2015-07-25T20:13:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://idlewords.com/2015/07/confronting_new_madrid.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Be sure to read part II as well.]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read earthquakes travelers'_tales spirits_of_places something_about_america ceglowski.maciej to:blog</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/what-this-cruel-war-was-over/396482/">
    <title>The Confederate Cause in the Words of Its Leaders - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-23T03:32:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/what-this-cruel-war-was-over/396482/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Confederate flag should not come down because it is offensive to African Americans.  The Confederate flag should come down because it is embarrassing to all Americans. The embarrassment is not limited to the flag, itself. The fact that it still flies, that one must have a debate about in 2015, reflects an incredible ignorance. A century and a half after Lincoln was killed, after 750,000 of our ancestors died, Americans still aren’t quite sure why."]]></description>
<dc:subject>something_about_america the_american_dilemma coates.ta-nehisi have_read us_civil_war racism the_nightmare_from_which_we_are_trying_to_awake</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2015/06/12/americas-ur-choropleths/">
    <title>America's Ur-Choropleths</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-15T17:25:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2015/06/12/americas-ur-choropleths/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Gabriel Rossman remarked to me a while ago that most choropleth maps of the U.S. for whatever variable in effect show population density more than anything else. ... The other big variable, in the U.S. case, is Percent Black. Between the two of them, population density and percent black will do a lot to obliterate many a suggestively-patterned map of the United States. Those two variables aren’t explanations of anything in isolation, but if it turns out it’s more useful to know one or both of them instead of the thing you’re plotting, you probably want to reconsider your theory.
"So as a public service, here are America’s two ur-chorolpeths, by county."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/07/remarks-president-50th-anniversary-selma-montgomery-marches">
    <title>Remarks by the President at the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery Marches | The White House</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-11T23:51:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/07/remarks-president-50th-anniversary-selma-montgomery-marches</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's a great speech.]]></description>
<dc:subject>something_about_america the_american_dilemma obama.barack</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/lurching-toward-happiness-america">
    <title>Lurching Toward Happiness in America | The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-11T00:47:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/lurching-toward-happiness-america</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The promise of America has long been conceived as the promise of happiness. Being American is all about the opportunity to pursue one’s own bliss. But what is the good life, and are we getting closer to its attainment? In the cacophony of competing conceptions of the good, technological interventions that claim to help us achieve it, and rancorous debate over government’s role in securing it for us, every step toward happiness seems to come with at least one step back.
"In Lurching Toward Happiness in America, acclaimed sociologist Claude Fischer explores the data, the myths, and history to understand how far America has come in delivering on its promise. Are Americans getting lonelier? Is the gender revolution over? Does income shape the way Americans see their life prospects? In the end, Fischer paints a broad picture of what Americans say they want. And, as he considers how close they are to achieving that goal, he also suggests what might finally get them there."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted sociology something_about_america moral_psychology in_library</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/why-america-not-new-rome">
    <title>Why America Is Not a New Rome | The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-07T05:47:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/why-america-not-new-rome</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["America’s post–Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in protracted fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and suffering the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, comparisons are to the bloated, decadent, ineffectual later Empire. In Why America Is Not a New Rome, Vaclav Smil looks at these comparisons in detail, going deeper than the facile analogy-making of talk shows and glossy magazine articles. He finds profound differences.
"Smil, a scientist and a lifelong student of Roman history, focuses on several fundamental concerns: the very meaning of empire; the actual extent and nature of Roman and American power; the role of knowledge and innovation; and demographic and economic basics--population dynamics, illness, death, wealth, and misery. America is not a latter-day Rome, Smil finds, and we need to understand this in order to look ahead without the burden of counterproductive analogies. Superficial similarities do not imply long-term political, demographic, or economic outcomes identical to Rome’s."

--- I'd be extra interested if he goes into why people are drawn to this bad analogy.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://squarelyrooted.com/2014/09/11/nationalize-sports/">
    <title>Nationalize Sports | squarely rooted</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-19T19:17:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://squarelyrooted.com/2014/09/11/nationalize-sports/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>moral_responsibility economics political_economy sports our_decrepit_institutions something_about_america to:blog</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/04/what-i-learned-about-stop-and-frisk-from-watching-my-black-son/359962/">
    <title>What I Learned About Stop-and-Frisk From Watching My Black Son - Christopher E. Smith - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-01T19:19:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/04/what-i-learned-about-stop-and-frisk-from-watching-my-black-son/359962/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My "creeping_authoritarianism" tag may be inappropriate, because it's not exactly "creeping".
(I am however surprised he doesn't mention the thought experiment of randomly stopping white people near Wall St. and investigating them for white-collar crimes, which would have a parallel justification in terms of increasing the hit rate.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>racism creeping_authoritarianism something_about_america the_american_dilemma have_read via:? to:blog</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/54461/4-russian-travel-tips-visiting-america">
    <title>4 Russian Travel Tips for Visiting America | Mental Floss</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-19T16:41:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/54461/4-russian-travel-tips-visiting-america</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>something_about_america funny:because_its_true as_others_see_us via:?</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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    <title>There Is Neither Coast Nor Interior, Nor Border, Nor Breed, Nor Birth: Live from the Roasterie LIII: December 12, 2013</title>
    <dc:date>2013-12-12T17:02:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/12/americas-coastal-royalty-realclearpolitics-live-from-the-roasterie-xlvi-december-3-2013.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>something_about_america us_politics class_struggles_in_america utter_stupidity hanson.victor_davis delong.brad</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://abstractfactory.blogspot.com/2013/07/western-us-road-trip-report-june-2013.html">
    <title>The Abstract Factory: Western US road trip report, June 2013</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-11T18:36:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://abstractfactory.blogspot.com/2013/07/western-us-road-trip-report-june-2013.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Cog" gets the way travel across the West feels simultaneously liberating and burdensome exactly right.]]></description>
<dc:subject>pretty_pictures something_about_america armchair_travel photography photos spirits_of_places american_west</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9960.html">
    <title>Wuthnow, R.: Small-Town America: Finding Community, Shaping the Future.</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-10T15:29:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9960.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In Small-Town America, we meet factory workers, shop owners, retirees, teachers, clergy, and mayors--residents who show neighborliness in small ways, but who also worry about everything from school closings and their children's futures to the ups and downs of the local economy. Drawing on more than seven hundred in-depth interviews in hundreds of towns across America and three decades of census data, Robert Wuthnow shows the fragility of community in small towns. He covers a host of topics, including the symbols and rituals of small-town life, the roles of formal and informal leaders, the social role of religious congregations, the perception of moral and economic decline, and the myriad ways residents in small towns make sense of their own lives. Wuthnow also tackles difficult issues such as class and race, abortion, homosexuality, and substance abuse."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted ethnography something_about_america</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate/hate_map.html#">
    <title>Hate Map</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-27T12:55:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate/hate_map.html#</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Oh, dear.  (Read the FAQ.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>visual_display_of_quantitative_information racism something_about_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ec2a994bbf33/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9781421409535&amp;qty=1&amp;source=2&amp;viewMode=3&amp;loggedIN=false&amp;JavaScript=y">
    <title>The Myth of the Superhero: The Johns Hopkins University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-27T17:53:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9781421409535&amp;qty=1&amp;source=2&amp;viewMode=3&amp;loggedIN=false&amp;JavaScript=y</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Superman swoops to rescue a beautiful woman from a vicious mugger. Spiderman wrestles with the morality of how to use his powers—for personal gain or the goodwill of his fellow human beings? Through a series of close readings of DC and Marvel comics, Marco Arnaudo examines the religious and mythological elements of superhero comics and uncovers the influence of the classical epic and the Baroque style on the genre. 
"Superheroes embody the most positive and inclusive aspects of American culture. Arnaudo asserts that, amidst the exciting action, tender love stories, and tales of self-sacrifice, superheroes are role models for tolerance and moral decision making. Translated for the first time into English, The Myth of the Superhero looks beyond the cape, the mask, and the super powers, presenting a serious study of the genre and its place in a broader cultural context."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted literary_criticism comics cultural_criticism mythology something_about_america</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.mulhollandbooks.com/2013/01/28/standing-in-another-mans-grave-with-a-gun-machine-warren-ellis-and-ian-rankin-in-conversation/">
    <title>Standing in Another Man’s Grave with a Gun Machine: Warren Ellis and Ian Rankin In Conversation | Mulholland Books</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-02T03:41:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mulhollandbooks.com/2013/01/28/standing-in-another-mans-grave-with-a-gun-machine-warren-ellis-and-ian-rankin-in-conversation/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If there was a God, then America is something he would do if his television was broken"]]></description>
<dc:subject>ellis.warren interview rankin.ian something_about_america</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/dec/15/our-moloch/">
    <title>Our Moloch by Garry Wills | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-16T05:45:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/dec/15/our-moloch/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We guarantee that crazed man after crazed man will have a flood of killing power readily supplied him. We have to make that offering, out of devotion to our Moloch, our god. The gun is our Moloch. We sacrifice children to him daily—sometimes, as at Sandy Hook, by directly throwing them into the fire-hose of bullets from our protected private killing machines, sometimes by blighting our children’s lives by the death of a parent, a schoolmate, a teacher, a protector. Sometime this is done by mass killings (eight this year), sometimes by private offerings to the god (thousands this year). 
"The gun is not a mere tool, a bit of technology, a political issue, a point of debate. It is an object of reverence. Devotion to it precludes interruption with the sacrifices it entails. Like most gods, it does what it will, and cannot be questioned. Its acolytes think it is capable only of good things. It guarantees life and safety and freedom. It even guarantees law. Law grows from it. Then how can law question it?
"Its power to do good is matched by its incapacity to do anything wrong. It cannot kill. Thwarting the god is what kills. If it seems to kill, that is only because the god’s bottomless appetite for death has not been adequately fed. The answer to problems caused by guns is more guns, millions of guns, guns everywhere, carried openly, carried secretly, in bars, in churches, in offices, in government buildings. Only the lack of guns can be a curse, not their beneficent omnipresence."

- Felix Gilman knew what he was doing when he made the Gun one of the two demonic Powers in his high-fantasy westerns (the other, of course, being the [railroad] Line).]]></description>
<dc:subject>something_about_america wills.garry guns</dc:subject>
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    <title>Brad DeLong: Somehow I Think That They Are Still in Kansas, Toto...</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-12T22:15:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/11/somehow-i-think-that-they-are-still-in-kansas-toto.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics something_about_america running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/hippies-wander-into-the-lions-den-maul-lions/264921/">
    <title>Hippies Wander Into the Lions' Den, Maul Lions - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-07T20:44:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/hippies-wander-into-the-lions-den-maul-lions/264921/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I am not sure what more to make of this. I would not say that the battle is over, but that some monster of American history, some wraith, some awful Power went into battle last night, and is presently limping away mortally wounded. The beast-handlers know this. I think it's broadcast in Bill O'Reilly's open racism, in Karl Rove's flight into lunacy. It is slowly dawning on them: This isn't 1968. The hippies are punching back."

- Yes, I am enjoying an irrational glow of victory.  Let me.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics something_about_america coates.ta-nehisi</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo14276572">
    <title>The Frontier Romance: Environment, Culture, and Alaska Identity, Kleinfeld</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-01T04:14:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo14276572</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Anyone curious about what drew people like Christopher McCandless (the subject of Into the Wild) and John Muir to Alaska will find nuanced answers in Frontier Romance, Judith Kleinfeld’s thoughtful study of the iconic American love of the frontier and its cultural influence. Kleinfeld considers the subject through three catagories: rebellion, redemption, and rebirth; escape and healing; and utopian community. Within these categories she explores the power of narrative to shape lives through concrete, compelling examples—both heart-warming and horrifying. Ultimately, Kleinfeld argues that the frontier narrative enables Americans—born or immigrant—to live deliberately, to gather courage, and to take risks, face danger, and seize freedom rather than fear it."

- Wait, is this the same Kleinfeld who wrote the critique of Milgram's "six degrees of separation" paper?]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/fear-of-a-black-president/309064/?single_page=true">
    <title>Fear of a Black President - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-23T17:47:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/fear-of-a-black-president/309064/?single_page=true</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An extraordinarily good piece of writing.]]></description>
<dc:subject>the_american_dilemma us_politics cultural_criticism racism american_history obama.barack coates.ta-nehisi something_about_america</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theonion.com/articles/sadly-nation-knows-exactly-how-colorado-shootings,28857/">
    <title>Sadly, Nation Knows Exactly How Colorado Shooting's Aftermath Will Play Out | The Onion - America's Finest News Source</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-22T01:15:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theonion.com/articles/sadly-nation-knows-exactly-how-colorado-shootings,28857/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming something_about_america crime violence</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&amp;id=775&amp;fulltext=1&amp;media=">
    <title>Los Angeles Review of Books - Killing Our Monsters: On Stephen King’s Magic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-19T21:02:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&amp;id=775&amp;fulltext=1&amp;media=</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>literary_criticism king.stephen langan.sarah something_about_america via:henry_farrell moral_psychology horror</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/07/02/120702crbo_books_kolbert?currentPage=1">
    <title>Why Are American Kids So Spoiled? : The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-13T14:12:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/07/02/120702crbo_books_kolbert?currentPage=1</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[More systematic comparisons across industrialized countries, please.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=12125">
    <title>Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream - Pawan Dhingra</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-18T15:51:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=12125</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Indian Americans own about half of all the motels in the United States. Even more remarkable, most of these motel owners come from the same region in India and—although they are not all related—seventy percent of them share the surname of Patel. Most of these motel owners arrived in the United States with few resources and, broadly speaking, they are self-employed, self-sufficient immigrants who have become successful—they live the American dream. 
"However, framing this group as embodying the American dream has profound implications. It perpetuates the idea of American exceptionalism—that this nation creates opportunities for newcomers unattainable elsewhere—and also downplays the inequalities of race, gender, culture, and globalization immigrants continue to face. Despite their dominance in the motel industry, Indian American moteliers are concentrated in lower- and mid-budget markets. Life Behind the Lobby explains Indian Americans' simultaneous accomplishments and marginalization and takes a close look at their own role in sustaining that duality."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted ethnography sociology something_about_america india immigration</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012302110010">
    <title>An American take on the Quran | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-15T15:57:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012302110010</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A hand-written and illustrated translation by an American artist".  To make this multiply bizarre, the visual style resembles nothing so much as a medieval Book of Hours, only with scenes of contemporary American life.  It seems really strange, though the pictures attached to the article aren't much on which to evaluate it.]]></description>
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    <title>Deathmatch on Mars: An Interview with Warren Ellis on Newt Gingrich, Space Realism and Future America | Motherboard</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-28T17:19:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/27/deathmatch-on-mars-an-interview-with-warren-ellis-on-newt-gingrich-space-realism-and-future-america</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How we seem to our friends from afar: "If we’re talking outside the space launch field, then, hell, America innovates every day, in a myriad of fields. The field of metamaterials, for instance — invisibility cloaks, and hiding events from time itself? That’s just today, as I talk to you, and that’s all American. I realize there’s a narrative that America is all done, and doesn’t make stuff any more, and it’s midnight for the American experiment and all that, but that ignores the basic mathematics of a country with three hundred million people in it. For every bunch of dubiously photogenic fetal-alcohol-syndrome cases from New Jersey who get on the TV for ten minutes, there are ten times as many people at MIT inventing the future."]]></description>
<dc:subject>ellis.warren space_exploration interview something_about_america via:warrenellis</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/edwards/sermons.sinners.html">
    <title>&quot;Sinners in the hands of an angry God&quot;: Jonathan Edwards, 1741</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-25T03:25:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ccel.org/ccel/edwards/sermons.sinners.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment. It is to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did not go to hell the last night; that you was suffered to awake again in this world, after you closed your eyes to sleep. And there is no other reason to be given, why you have not dropped into hell since you arose in the morning, but that God's hand has held you up. There is no other reason to be given why you have not gone to hell, since you have sat here in the house of God, provoking his pure eyes by your sinful wicked manner of attending his solemn worship. Yea, there is nothing else that is to be given as a reason why you do not this very moment drop down into hell."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://haquelebac.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/why-did-henry-james-kill-daisy-miller/">
    <title>Why Did Henry James Kill Daisy Miller? « Haquelebac</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-19T17:48:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://haquelebac.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/why-did-henry-james-kill-daisy-miller/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We know that it was Henry James and no one else who killed Daisy Miller. James did not kill Daisy because he shared society’s view that her behavior was scandalous and intolerable, or Winterbourne’s milder version of that same judgment; these judgments were not his, but part of the story he told. It may be that he felt that he had to kill Daisy to protect himself (and his book) against Daisy’s fate. As it was, the book outraged many, and if Daisy had blithely returned to Schenectady and New York to wreak havoc there, the  outrage would have been much more intense. Furthermore, if Daisy had returned to the United States without anything really big happening  – for example, if she had returned married to Winterbourne* — it would have been anticlimactic. The demands of the story meant that Daisy had to die or something, and death was the only storyteller’s ending that would not have made James’ book too shocking to publish.

* Astonishingly to me, in 1883 James did write a dramatized version with a happy Daisy-marries-Winterbourne ending. The young author was apparently still finding his way."


--- Surely there must be fanfic where Daisy _does_ return to Schenectady to wreak havoc?  Perhaps a historical mystery series?]]></description>
<dc:subject>literary_criticism something_about_america emerson.john james.henry</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo11952814.html">
    <title>American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas, Ratner-Rosenhagen</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-13T02:01:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo11952814.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If you were looking for a philosopher likely to appeal to Americans, Friedrich Nietzsche would be far from your first choice. After all, in his blazing career, Nietzsche took aim at nearly all the foundations of modern American life: Christian morality, the Enlightenment faith in reason, and the idea of human equality. Despite that, for more than a century Nietzsche has been a hugely popular—and surprisingly influential—figure in American thought and culture.

In American Nietzsche, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen delves deeply into Nietzsche's philosophy, and America’s reception of it, to tell the story of his curious appeal. Beginning her account with Ralph Waldo Emerson, whom the seventeen-year-old Nietzsche read fervently, she shows how Nietzsche’s ideas first burst on American shores at the turn of the twentieth century, and how they continued  alternately to invigorate and to shock Americans for the century to come. She also delineates the broader intellectual and cultural contexts within which a wide array of commentators—academic and armchair philosophers, theologians and atheists, romantic poets and hard-nosed empiricists, and political ideologues and apostates from the Left and the Right—drew insight and inspiration from Nietzsche’s claims for the death of God, his challenge to universal truth, and his insistence on the interpretive nature of all human thought and beliefs. At the same time, she explores how his image as an iconoclastic immoralist was put to work in American popular culture, making Nietzsche an unlikely posthumous celebrity capable of inspiring both teenagers and scholars alike."

Later: There's a good (and quite positive) review in The Nation, http://www.thenation.com/article/164321/american-idol-nietzsche-america]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted history_of_ideas something_about_america philosophy nietzsche.friedrich in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/08/a-modest-proposal-cont/243196/">
    <title>A Modest Proposal Cont. - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-06T03:51:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/08/a-modest-proposal-cont/243196/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We start with a group of people living as slaves for 250 years... We take what should be their wages ... forbid them from marrying ... sell off their kids, some of whom are actually our kids. We forbid them to learn to read. ... We then are forced to grant them freedom, but we pass more laws ... to keep them from exercising any sort of political power ... Wide-ranging campaign of home-grown terror ... We burn down their schools ... so ardent in our enmity toward them that we actually attack education for poor whites, for fear that it may help blacks by mistake... Policies at virtually every level of government... [to keep] down the values of their homes, [keep] them from competing with us for jobs ... We do this for ... 300 hundred years. And then we develop a conscience, and for about 30 years we try to make up for what we've done, before deciding that [is] reverse racism. And then we [wonder] why ... a disproportionate share of black people can't live in a nice neighborhood."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>something_about_america the_american_dilemma racism coates.ta-nehisi</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=30070">
    <title>The Two Faces of American Freedom - Aziz Rana - Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-05T18:56:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=30070</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Today, while the U.S. enjoys tremendous military and economic power, citizens are increasingly insulated from everyday decision-making. [But] America ... began as a settler society grounded in an ideal of freedom as the exercise of continuous self-rule—one that joined direct political participation with economic independence. However, this vision of freedom was politically bound to the subordination of marginalized groups, especially slaves, Native Americans, and women.  ... [A]t crucial moments, social movements sought to imagine freedom without either subordination or empire. By the mid-twentieth century, these efforts failed, resulting in the rise of hierarchical state and corporate institutions... presented national and economic security as society’s guiding commitments and nurtured a continual extension of America’s global reach. Rana envisions a democratic society that revives settler ideals, [but with] meaningful inclusion for those currently at the margins of American life."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted something_about_america</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c9eb5a218d31/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2010/11/fix-the-deficit-cure-diabetes.html">
    <title>slacktivist: Fix the deficit: Cure diabetes</title>
    <dc:date>2010-11-13T19:34:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2010/11/fix-the-deficit-cure-diabetes.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The thing is, despite my "modest proposals" tag, the numbers make sense.  You'd have to bet against the program working at (back of the envelope) more than 10:1, and think it would deliver _no_ benefits if it didn't completely cure diabetes...
]]></description>
<dc:subject>diabetes modest_proposals us_politics economic_policy medicine something_about_america slacktivist via:orzelc</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d516f45d523d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://dowlingduncan.com/dowling-duncan-redesign-us-bank-notes/">
    <title>Dowling | Duncan – Dowling Duncan redesign the US bank notes</title>
    <dc:date>2010-08-30T15:48:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dowlingduncan.com/dowling-duncan-redesign-us-bank-notes/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cute, but I still think Washington should be on the $1.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>design funny something_about_america via:phnk</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4cf9b092bfd7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/1st-meditations-on-the-soccer-ball/">
    <title>1st Meditations on the soccer ball. « The Edge of the American West</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-17T13:43:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/1st-meditations-on-the-soccer-ball/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The explanation: “Soccer would be popular in the U.S., but it can’t be televised profitably because there are no natural breaks for advertisements.”

The attraction: It cleverly posits that the simple sport is being kept down by evil American capitalism and the pursuit of the Almighty Dollar.
 ...  the plausibility of this explanation requires belief in the proposition “Americans can’t figure out how to make money from something.”  Think about this. Let it simmer.  We are the land of the Free and the Home of Billy the Big-Mouthed Bass.   Someone is making millions on the goddamn Lolcats.  I’m sure we could figure out how to make money from televising soccer were there the interest in doing so."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny soccer something_about_america</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://chrononaut.org/2010/06/10/seven-cities/">
    <title>Chrononaut » Seven Cities</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-11T16:44:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://chrononaut.org/2010/06/10/seven-cities/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted science_fiction alternate_history something_about_america moles.david books:owned</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:77eb3150d7e1/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:science_fiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:alternate_history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:something_about_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:moles.david"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2010/06/05/no-i-want-my-country-back-asholes/">
    <title>No, I Want MY Country Back, A**sholes | ATTACKERMAN</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-06T01:48:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2010/06/05/no-i-want-my-country-back-asholes/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Loud and prolonged applause.  (I don't expect this to make any sense to friends from abroad.)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics something_about_america</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:bdb936cd5258/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780670021758-0">
    <title>Powell's Books - The Great Oom: The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America by Robert Love</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-08T13:41:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780670021758-0</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted yoga wisdom_of_the_east something_about_america psychoceramics cultural_exchange</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a6b4fdde5ea7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To_the_Person_Sitting_in_Darkness">
    <title>To the Person Sitting in Darkness by Mark Twain</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-23T03:13:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To_the_Person_Sitting_in_Darkness</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There have been lies; yes, but they were told in a good cause. We have been treacherous; but that was only in order that real good might come out of apparent evil. True, we have crushed a deceived and confiding people; we have turned against the weak and the friendless who trusted us; we have stamped out a just and intelligent and well-ordered republic; we have stabbed an ally in the back and slapped the face of a guest; we have bought a Shadow from an enemy that hadn't it to sell; we have robbed a trusting friend of his land and his liberty; we have invited our clean young men to shoulder a discredited musket and do bandit's work under a flag which bandits have been accustomed to fear, not to follow; we have debauched America's honor and blackened her face before the world; but each detail was for the best."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>imperialism something_about_america moral_responsibility moral_depravity twain.mark</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;isbn=9780226251431">
    <title>Claude S. Fischer: Made in America</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-22T14:08:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;isbn=9780226251431</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted something_about_america american_history</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4008714e1619/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/04/the-ghost-of-bobby-lee/38813/">
    <title>The Ghost of Bobby Lee - National - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-13T14:10:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/04/the-ghost-of-bobby-lee/38813/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>moral_psychology nationalism uses_of_the_past something_about_america us_civil_war coates.ta-nehisi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4d2743fbde35/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/04/proud-of-being-ignorant/38569/">
    <title>Proud Of Being Ignorant - National - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-08T03:00:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/04/proud-of-being-ignorant/38569/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A marvelously-written little post.  The final sentence is worthy of Mencken: "This is who they are--the proud and ignorant. If you believe that if we still had segregation we wouldn't "have had all these problems," this is the movement for you. If you believe that your president is a Muslim sleeper agent, this is the movement for you. If you honor a flag raised explicitly to destroy this country then this is the movement for you. If you flirt with secession, even now, then this movement is for you. If you are a "Real American" with no demonstrable interest in "Real America" then, by God, this movement of alchemists and creationists, of anti-science and hair tonic, is for you."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>running_dogs_of_reaction us_civil_war the_american_dilemma something_about_america coates.ta-nehisi us_politics racist_idiocy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php/site/health_care_and_civil_rights/">
    <title>Health care and civil rights - Michael Bérubé - American Airspace</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-23T16:43:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php/site/health_care_and_civil_rights/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Special guest post by the intellectual leader of the Republican Party"!
]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics parody:vicious running_dogs_of_reaction something_about_america berube.michael</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6501f71d04b3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/01/thought_experiment.php">
    <title>Thought experiment - James Fallows</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-24T20:36:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/01/thought_experiment.php</link>
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    <title>A Modest Proposal for the Hold Music on the Congressional Phone System: « The Inverse Square Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-03T01:53:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/a-modest-proposal-for-the-hold-music-on-the-congressional-phone-system/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Genius.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious us_politics utter_stupidity something_about_america hendrix.jimi levenson.thomas</dc:subject>
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    <title>Rick Perlstein, &quot;In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-15T15:32:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/14/AR2009081401495_pf.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How can this appear in the Washington Post?  (But I'm glad it did.)
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/422902.html">
    <title>The Infamous Brad - Yes We Can Put Americans Back to Work. We Probably Won't, Though.</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-11T02:40:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/422902.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>economics architecture something_about_america new_deal great_depression wpa via:britta us_politics infrastructure public_goods economic_growth</dc:subject>
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    <title>Greatest Achievements of American Socialism - Salon</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-07T03:49:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/02/06/new_deal/slideshow.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[New Deal building projects.  (Yay, Cathedral of Learning!)
]]></description>
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    <title>Matthew Yglesias » More Serious Friday Nordic Blogging</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-21T22:16:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/12/more_serious_friday_nordic_blogging.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yglesias has seen Finland, and it works.  Meanwhile, "we’re trapped in a frustrating circle of passive acceptance of the idea that we just have to live in a country where public services are ill-funded and poorly delivered. And it’s not just that conservatives block reforms — progressives have let their horizons slip incredibly low. A country that once built transcontinental railroads and sent people to the moon has decided that for some reason it’d just be impossible to solve our current social problems."  Perhaps one might say our problem is, to coin a phrase, being beholden to "hyper-timid incrementalist bullshit"?
]]></description>
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