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	<description>a blog on the era and its "paper of record"</description>
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		<title>Freaky Nukes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poor Jane Fonda! Despite having been right about the Vietnam war, winning two Oscars, and not getting drunk and uttering any profanity or anti-Semitic remarks in public, she is still constantly put down by liberals. The authors of Freakonomics, Stephan J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt, establishment darlings who appear frequently in the Times (so [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Freaky Nukes", url: "http://www.tropesofthetimes.com/2008/01/06/freaky-nukes/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Persona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Times carried an editorial on human DNA mapping, occasioned by the announced sequencing of the genome of James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helix (read editorial here; read the Watson &#8220;news&#8221; piece here).  The thrust of the editorial is that &#8220;individual genomic sequencing&#8221; gives us &#8221; a clearer idea of who we are.&#8221;
Who are [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Persona", url: "http://www.tropesofthetimes.com/2007/08/08/persona/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Stew or Shepard&#8217;s Pie?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Science Times triumphantly announced, in a March 6 piece by Nicholas Wade, that genetics tops history: &#8220;Most of history aside, DNA evidence suggests that the English and the Irish have much more in common than they once thought.&#8221; Wade, the paper&#8217;s mouthpiece for the Central Dogma of biological reductionism and determinism, reports with faux astonishment [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Irish Stew or Shepard&#8217;s Pie?", url: "http://www.tropesofthetimes.com/2007/05/29/irish-stew-or-shepards-pie/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>For Health&#8217;s Sake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Times recently reported on a healthcare forum held by Democratic candidates before the SEIU (March 25).  According to the intro paragraph, &#8220;Seven Democratic candidates for president promised . . . to guarantee health insurance for all, but they disagreed over how to pay for it and how fast it could be achieved.&#8221;
The balance of the story does NOT [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "For Health&#8217;s Sake", url: "http://www.tropesofthetimes.com/2007/03/29/for-healths-sake/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin Rules</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An occasional column, &#8220;Observatory,&#8221; by Henry Fountain appears episodically in the Times as a kind of supplement to the weekly Science Times Tuesday feature. A recent piece (October 3rd) on the diet of frogs illustrates the paper’s penchant for embracing an extreme form of Darwinistic determination.
The question posed is whether there &#8220;is a connection between [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Darwin Rules", url: "http://www.tropesofthetimes.com/2007/01/06/darwin-rules/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Multicultural Mush</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Orlando Patterson, Harvard prof and guest columnist for the Times, writes at length to the effect that Christmas is merely &#8220;a uniquely American national festival.&#8221; (“A Holiday for Us All,” Dec. 23) As a practicing Jew, may I assert the contrary; it is a religious holiday that has been given a place of special privilege [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Multicultural Mush", url: "http://www.tropesofthetimes.com/2006/12/26/multicultural-mush/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>The Yoke of Oppression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the Jewish Holyday of Yom Kippur, the Day of Repentance, a day of fasting, congregations around the world read from the book of Isaiah, where God describes our hunger pains as merely symbolic. The true &#8220;fast,&#8221; we are told, includes acts of tikkun olam, healing the world.Part of the exhortation notes:&#8221;Is not this the [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Yoke of Oppression", url: "http://www.tropesofthetimes.com/2006/11/09/the-yoke-of-oppression/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>9/11&#8211;only an elegy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[9/11 is the date of several important anniversaries: the 5th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, the 33rd anniversary of the military coup against the Allende government in Chile; and the 100th anniversary of the first nonviolence campaign launched by Mohandas K. Gandhi.
The first two of these anniversaries are synonymous with deprivations [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "9/11&#8211;only an elegy?", url: "http://www.tropesofthetimes.com/2006/10/30/911-only-an-elegy/" });</script>]]></description>
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