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What I am reading this weekend (August 30, 2013)

…prior to the arrival of students, the beginning of school, and the traditional ramping up of Fall. The Academy Fight Song, by Thomas Frank (The Baffler) The coming of “academic capitalism” has been anticipated and praised for years; today it … Continue reading

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In praise of the pollex

Anatomists, those masters of the dark arts of naming each and every of our body parts, refer to our thumb as the pollex, to which I can only say bollocks. A thumb is a thumb and be glad you have … Continue reading

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