Day: April 21, 2005

New York Times Magazine: The Unregulated Offensive

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Jeffrey Rosen in The New York Times Magazine: The Unregulated Offensive As Epstein sees it, all individuals have certain inherent rights and liberties, including ‘’economic’’ liberties, like the right to property and, more crucially, the right to part with it only voluntarily. These rights are violated any time an individual is deprived of his property … Read more

Is That a Poem? – The case for E.E. Cummings

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Is That a Poem? – The case for E.E. Cummings. By Billy Collins, at Slate “In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings. By erasing the sacred left margin, breaking down … Read more