Anyone interested in the whole tea party thing in Washington might want to take a look at Tenured Radical: Professor Radical Goes To Washington To Preview The Apocalypse. In tenured radical’s view, this is about more than race, even if some portion of the tea baggers want to reduce everything to race. Tenured radical suggests that this group has complex and confused wants and demands. TR is undoubtedly right and articulate about it.
Stanley Fish asks and answers the question of whether there is some sort of right to curiousity, and implicitly whether its such a good thing. As Fish writes, “In short, curiosity — sometimes called research, sometimes called unfettered inquiry, sometimes called progress, sometimes called academic freedom — is their God. The question, posed by thinkers from Aquinas to Augustine to Newman to Griffiths, is whether this is the God — the God, ultimately, of self — we want to worship. Given the evidence, including Chairman Leach’s address, the answer would seem to be yes.” Really fascinating reading. Does Curiosity Kill More Than the Cat? – Stanley Fish Blog – NYTimes.com.
