Dancing through heads at Bookforum. More on China's authoritarian trip from Reihan and Matt Frost. Meanwhile the New York Times continues its pretty excellent Russia coverage with a reminder that the wave of the future is a land of fascist-Orthodox street beatings and the Pussycat Dolls. Terry Eagleton looks to be the latest stuck in either/or terms. Thinking like this is a big mistake:
Politics today is largely a question of management and administration. Blake, by contrast, viewed the political as inseparable from art, ethics, sexuality and the imagination. It was about the emancipation of desire, not its manipulation. Desire for him was an infinite delight, and his whole project was to rescue it from the repressive regime of priests and kings.
Is a police state inching its way toward America? U.K.?
- Aside from the unjustified taser incidents there seems to be something else brewing
-"Peaceful onlookers were arrested by police for reading the Constitution while a pro-war group was allowed full freedom of speech in Washington DC.Police are required to swear an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution but this didn't stop them from kidnapping members of the Code Pink group, who gathered on a nearby sidewalk to calmly express their disagreement with a Neo-Con pro-war event taking place nearby by reading the bill of rights.
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