tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post115042671774154598..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: Peretz and SummersHunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1150482536153292812006-06-16T14:28:00.000-04:002006-06-16T14:28:00.000-04:00How Neitzchean of you, Tom. Been reading "Harrison...How Neitzchean of you, Tom. Been reading "Harrison Bergeron," have you?<BR/><BR/>Peretz's defense of Summers (which I agree with in spirit, if not entirely substance), would be far more convincing if he didn't have a propensity to see anti-Semites under every rock and behind every tree. Martin Peretz is a one-trick pony, and the trick has long since lost it's novelty, so often repeated as it is. He is utterly incapable of writing a single piece that cannot be boiled down to "I went to Harvard and I teach there, too! And you're an anti-Semite, bitch!"James F. Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747033407956667363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1150429168474190522006-06-15T23:39:00.000-04:002006-06-15T23:39:00.000-04:00Intellectual mediocrity is the highest goal of mod...Intellectual mediocrity is the highest goal of modernism, the French Revolution, egalitarianism, and the European Union. <BR/><BR/>All men are equal. (And women, too!)<BR/><BR/>As the American home of the world left, the academy is of course in communion. Larry Summers is a heretic, and although it's <I>passé</I>, they burned him at the stake anyway because they couldn't find a functioning guillotine.<BR/><BR/>Excellence and effort are the enemies of the people. Divisive. <BR/><BR/>They'd abolish the World Cup if they could get away with it without their capitals getting burned down.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com