Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Monday.
* Žižek has an op-ed in the New York Times on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. It's pretty good.
The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, “Better dead than red!” are now often heard mumbling, “Better red than eating hamburgers.” But the Communist nostalgia should not be taken too seriously: far from expressing an actual wish to return to the gray Socialist reality, it is more a form of mourning, of gently getting rid of the past. As for the rise of the rightist populism, it is not an Eastern European specialty, but a common feature of all countries caught in the vortex of globalization...* Standards for Grading the Life of an Adjunct Composition Professor.
* Our university in the news! Duke Criticized Over Sex Toy Study.
* Two good posts from Josh Marshall consider whether 2010 or 2012 is the next flashpoint for health care reform.
* And who supports marriage equality? The real question is, what's going to happen to me when I turn thirty next week?
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