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Politics & Society

Civil Rights Moonwalk: Michael Jackson, Armond White, and Democracy

by Micah Towery December 1, 2010 Film
Do Movie Critics Matter?

We’ve all justified seeing a particular movie or following a TV show by saying “It’s terrible, but it’s just entertainment/pop/etc.”–I know I have. There’s that niggling feeling that we should not have enjoyed that film/show as much as we did. But this justification is an easy-out, something that is surprisingly accepted among even the most [...]

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Outing and Demonizing

by Joe Weil October 12, 2010 Politics & Society

When I first saw , I looked at the boy’s picture. I was in my office here at Binghamton, and I could not stop crying. It brought back my own brutal mocking when I was in high school at St. Mary of the Assumption High. I once had 100 students in an assembly sing the [...]

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Is Democracy Incompatible with the Humanities?

by Micah Towery October 1, 2010 Academia

In a recent blog post, and takes George Philip, president of SUNY-Albany, to task for axing the French, Italian, classics, Russian, and theater programs. Fish claims it is the job of presidents and chancellors to proclaim the value of liberal arts education loudly and often and at least try to make the powers that be [...]

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