Tag: Sleeper
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Can you call it a war if . . .
Can There Be Politics in Tragedy? Or in Gaza? By Jim Sleeper – January 4, 2009, 6:22PM I’m immersed in long-range writing and leave tomorrow for six months in Berlin, but the Gaza war provokes me to share a brilliant essay by Darry Li, a doctoral student in anthropology and Middle East Studies at Harvard…
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A noble name
Until I read Jim Sleeper‘s TPM Cafe column, Swear Him in as ‘Barack Hussein Obama,’ it never occurred to me that the president-elect would be sworn in by anything other than his full name. The protests during the primaries and the general elections have been when bigots have wielded the name as an invective or…
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On the road to Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008
Editor’s note: I am so nervous about the presidential election on Tuesday that I’m almost paralyzed. Certainly here I have been content to let others post instead of writing myself. I hope to summon some of my own words before Tuesday’s voting actually begins (I know boat loads of people have already voted). My friend…
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The color of thought
I’ve just about had it with my friend Jim Sleeper. This is what he does to infuriate me: He writes these deep, complicated pieces, which are really essays, not blog posts, that are layered with links to other thoughtful pieces that very nearly grind you to the ground as you contemplate what they mean, that…
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Thinking and reassessing
Jim Sleeper got me. We’d had our debates all those years ago but I was always fond of him. So, when we had our disagreements, it was a disagreement. I figured he believed what he believed and that was that. But when we had lunch recently, after having been out of touch for several years,…