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17 Feb, 6 tweets, 2 min read
I decided to investigate. Here's the passage from the review. ImageImage
Intrigued even more, I got the book on Kindle. Here are the offending passages. ImageImageImageImage
Oh, and McNeil's comment about his "attraction" to women in a Zika seminar in Puerto Rico? He describes the seminar leader as "an attractive young woman." STRING HIM UP!
The fact that QRB flagged those passages as inappropriate suggests that "politically correct" orthodoxy (for lack of a better word) in academic publishing is at absurd levels. (What a surprise.)
Also: While I think Ben's article was fair, the QRB review passage is a bit misleading. A reader could infer that McNeil had disparaged gays (rather than noting that gay sex could be a Zika transmission vector) or gratuitously slammed feminists.
/FIN
(Redid this thread because I had a brain glitch and got McNeil's name wrong. LOL Thanks @jenniferm_q !)

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30 Jan
It's kind of hilarious that these guys would pick a still from "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" for their glorious image of trad manhood, because, well....

(stop reading now if you haven't seen the film and don't want to be thoroughly spoiled. also, go see it!)
What we see here is a young lawyer, Ranse Stoddard (Jimmy Stewart -- not exactly *young* here, but he's supposed to be), taking shooting lessons from rancher Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) to fight back against the thug Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin), who has robbed & humiliated him.
But ... Ranse sucks at shooting & other trad macho stuff. He's a college boy who insists on the rule of law & starts a local literacy program. Before his law practice takes off, he washes dishes & waits table at the tavern, wearing an apron, & is mocked as "the new waitress."
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30 Jan
As you may have seen, @ArcDigi, the Medium-based publication where I am an associate editor & regular contributor, has taken a bit of a financial hit in terms of Medium support for our budget for authors' fees.

Why should you support @ArcDigi? No, not just because I'm involved. 😃 In today's partisan media environment, @ArcDigi has a rare commitment to intellectual pluralism as a foundational value. There may not be "both sides" to all issues, but there certainly are to most.
Take, for example, the recent controversy over the white girl who was shamed in the social media (& lost admission to a university) after the reveal of a 4-year-old Snapchat video in which she uttered a racial slur. Arc published four different, interesting takes on the story.
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ICYMI: A look at the legacy of #VladimirLenin for his recent 150th anniversary, and why Lenin was not (as some modern-day socialists still think) "the good communist."

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Also, I strongly recommend the Robert Service biography of Lenin, which I'm reading now (and wish I'd had time to read before writing this piece -- some devastating stuff there). A few tidbits:
(1) Lenin himself admitted on occasion that he knew very little of the Russian people or Russian life beyond his hometown, Kazan (where he went to the university) and St. Petersburg. He showed no interest in personal interaction with actual workers or peasants.
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28 Apr 20
Several problems with this article.

1. COVID-19 death rates in Sweden are growing much faster than in most other countries -- I don't have the day-to-day numbers, but the rate per million has passed the US & is on track to pass the UK.
2. Belgium, France & Spain comparisons are apples to oranges: very different population density and culture, earlier outbreaks in those countries, different death counting in Belgium
3. A lot of reports suggest that social distancing in Sweden has been much more extensive than this piece suggests. Public transit use has been cut in half. Bars & pubs are open but revenues down drastically

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11 Feb 20
ICYMI: My new article for @BulwarkOnline takes an in-depth look at aspects of the #1619Project from the @nytimes

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Package has some great material. But some of its key claims are ideologically skewed & based on shoddy scholarship.
The assertion (defended by @nytimes) that preserving slavery was an important motive for the colonists' rebellion against British rule is linked to the 1772 Somerset case holding that in some situations a slave brought to England had a claim to freedom under British common law.
In fact, the anti-Somerset backlash in the American colonies is 99% myth, based on speculation or outright distortion. Here, a Loyalist pamphlet citing England's perceived slavery ban as a reason for colonies NOT to seek British liberties is passed off as an attack on Somerset.
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