Monday, November 08, 2004
(11:53 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Good work, Matt
Matt at Pas Au-Delà has been on a roll the past few weeks. Of particular note are this post featuring a long excerpt from Cornell West and this post that one commenter is calling "the Speculative Good Friday of the blogilectical process." He also links to an interesting critique (no permalinks) of Zizek's latest, "The Liberal Waterloo".Meanwhile, d-squared at Crooked Timber is discussing the possibility of a merger between the US and the UK, and Henry is attempting a meta-discussion of why debates on Israel and Palestine are often so much more heated than other similar debates. Matt Yglesias argues something that I have thought ever since hearing the news of Renquist's illness: replacing him with another conservative won't make much difference. Michael Bérubé is off getting saved, Weblogger emeritus Adam Robinson hosts the first annual Adam Kotsko celebrity roast, and Gorss informs us about science and technology.
Howard Zinn offers hope.
I believe that my constitutional convention post has now exceeded The Weblog's record for number of comments -- and without a doubt, it wins out for the sheer length of the comments posted. Last week seemed to me to illustrate one good thing about blogs, the ability to build something like "community," the chance to get out there and vent and maybe even be a little bit stupid and know it would be okay. I'm glad to have been able to provide a space for people to do that, even if it increased my e-mail workload a thousandfold (due to comment notifications). I believe it was Monica Bennett who first pointed out this potential function of blogging.
Anyway, that was my link post for today.
