Tag Archives: Shelby Steele

A RAKE IN PROGRESS: WRITING ROWDY,RAW & REGAL

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Dave

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu prettily characterises Fielding and this capacity for happiness which he possessed, in a little notice of his death when she compares him to Steele, who was as improvident and as happy as he was, and says … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alexander Pope, Cervantes, Coleridge, Don Quixote, G.M. Godden, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Fielding, James Gillray, Jane Austen, John M. Ellis, Jonathan Swift, Lady Mary Whortley, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Nicolai Leskov, Robert Walpole, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Shelby Steele, Sir Walter Scott, Steele and Smollet, Thackeray, Walter Benjamin, Walter E. Allen, William Barker, William Dafoe, William Hogarth, William Makepiece Thackeray | Leave a comment

JUST WINDOW SHOPPING

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Dave

Liberalism is often thought to be a panacea for righting historical wrongs, and using condemnations of past behavior as moral leverage to limit current freedoms for the greater good of the society as a whole. Much of our present thinking … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged African Slave Trade, Anthony Kwame Appiah, Arab Historian al-Nuwayri, Arab Slave Caravans, Bart Schultz, Bill Moyers, David Theo Goldberg, Diane Francis, Edmind Burke, Emir Ibrahim Tripoli, Guilo Rosati, Iran Public hanging, Islam Slave trade, James Mill, James Richardson, John Stuart Mill, Karen Armstrong, Martha Nussbaum, Otto Pilny, Sam Huntington, Shelby Steele, Thomas Carlyle, Uday Mehta, www.ralphmag.org | Leave a comment

DO WHAT YOU MAY HARM NO ONE EXCEPT ON HIGHWAY 61

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Dave

Oh God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son” Abe says, “Man, you must be puttin’ me on” God say, “No.” Abe say, “What ?” God say, “You can do what you want Abe, but The next time you see … Continue reading →