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This issue-centered thematic reader presents a range of provocative and politically balanced readings from the left, the right, and the center of the current political spectrum by journalists, activists, theorists, academics, and policy makers. Accompanying questions and writing assignments teach students to think and write critically about the selections and the issues they represent.
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Josefina Barria
reviewed Left, Right and Center: Voices from across the Political Spectrum on July 16, 2009
Left, Right and Center
Three chapters and DONE.
Man, PJ O'Rourke used to be somebody. His work at National Lampoon was great, and the "High School Yearbook Parody" he helmed there is a high point in American humor. As a proto-neocon pundit, even when he was completely disagreeable, he remained a wit. Here he's going for Oliver Wendell Holmes but comes off as an open-mic comic crossed with Andy Rooney ("I hate cell phones! And people who use earpieces with their cellphones look like crazy people talking to themselves!") -- and his self-deprecating note in the TOC about this screed can't save it.
And not only has he become clueless to the popular culture (or the pop culture circa 1997, as he misspells Tupac Shakur), he can't even get the right name of someone in his camp (note: the female senator from North Carolina and wife of Bob Dole does not go by "Libby." No matter how many hits come up when you Google it). Things like that may seem nitpicky, but if someone (or his people) can't be bothered to get easily-verifiable things like that right, then I'm certainly not going to trust him to hold forth on complicated things like why the UN and Social Security are messes.
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