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I\u2019ve been websurfing a bit this morning, and I can\u2019t limit myself to citing just one article.\u00a0 So here are a number of especially compelling pieces for you to check out:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Stanley Fish just wrote an interesting piece on academic freedom for the New York Times<\/a>.\u00a0 Quick excerpt: \u201cIndeed, to emphasize the \u201cpersonal\u201d is to mistake the nature of academic freedom, which belongs, Finkin and Post declare, to the enterprise, not to the individual. If academic freedom were \u201creconceptualized as an individual right,\u201d it would make no sense \u2014 why should workers in this enterprise have enlarged rights denied to others? \u2014 and support for it \u201cwould vanish\u201d because that support, insofar as it exists, is for the project and its promise (the production of new knowledge) and not for those who labor within it. Academics do not have a general liberty, only \u201cthe liberty to practice the scholarly profession\u201d and that liberty is hedged about by professional norms and responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 The New Yorker covers the strange phenomenon that is luxurious celebrity rehab<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cRehab\u201d seems to end up looking a lot like \u201cvacation\u201d\u2013or is it just me?\u00a0 That aside, it is startling to see how painfully these people feel.\u00a0 They talk about the \u201cBeast,\u201d the force that drives them to use drugs, but they are so far from recognizing the true beast.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Interesting article on the power of Google<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s especially interesting to see people like the author, one who \u201ctuned out\u201d from mainstream media and culture in the 60s, embrace the technological revolution of our era.\u00a0 Colors all those psychedelic pictures from Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane concerts, doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0 Little did those people know that they would be participating in just a few short decades in the most powerful capitalist market the world has ever seen.\u00a0 Idealism, you old dog, you die a hard death.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 The Times looks into one pastor\u2019s call for \u201ccongregational copulation.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 You know, we come off looking pretty weird in this one, and I\u2019m not sure that I would do the same, but how weird are evangelicals, really, in a world that can\u2019t sell anything\u2013chapstick, gum, music, books, you name it\u2013without reference to sex?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure what posting will look like this week, but these should tide you over for the time being.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"