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To: LindyBill who wrote (107466)	4/3/2005 12:19:45 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

Speaking of boring academics, here is a good comment from Ann. "Earnest tomes." althouse.blogspot.com By Ann Althouse Here's a review of Alan Wolfe's "Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It." The reviewer Gary Rosen reacts to that title with the same ennui I get from it: When liberal rabble-rousers get fed up with Republican duplicity and Democratic fecklessness, they write books full of invective and rude humor, with titles like ''Stupid White Men'' and ''Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them).'' When liberal intellectuals feel the same impulse, they lash out with paradigms and sprawling historical analogies, in earnest tomes with titles like, well, ''Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It.'' Neither sort of book is especially edifying, but at least Michael Moore and Al Franken deliver an occasional laugh.

To: LindyBill who wrote (107466)	4/3/2005 12:35:16 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 793914

I initially link to most academic blogs like this one. Unfortunately, I "de-link" from most due to boring "academic" writing. We will see how this one goes. You might try Crooked Timber. crookedtimber.org. Though it suffers from the same problem. Someone asked an interesting question today, for sources on Nietzche's effect on the social sciences. In a form undergraduates could understand. Admittedly, that commentary would take a rather long time. I find Daniel Drezner's blog intermittently interesting. And Brad DeLong's is always interesting. Josh Marshall, as you know, has a PhD in American Studies from Brown, but is hardly an academic poster, at least in terms of the stereotype.