Cynthia’s Interests

June 15, 2007

What I’m reading

Filed under: National Politics - Cynthia @ 10:53 am

Last night I went to hear John Perkins promote his new book, “The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption”. It is a must read.

While there, I bought another book called “The Trouble With Diversity” by Walter Benn Michaels.

The trouble with diversity is perhaps the most incisive look yet at how liberalism – in its polite, well-meaning way – missed the boat on the greatest liberal issues of our time: inequality. Worse: as Michaels shows, liberalism, with its almost obsessive concern for diversity, has actually managed to make the problem invisible. Thomas Frank...

To see this in action, you only have to look at the Black Blogosphere.

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  1. You are getting national exposure. Check out this posting at Mydd:

    http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/6/10/233233/348

    Thanks for letting me know.

    Comment by ous — June 16, 2007 @ 7:33 am

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