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About Fenster

Gainfully employed for thirty years, including as one of those high paid college administrators faculty complain about. Earned Ph.D. late in life and converted to the faculty side. Those damn administrators are ruining everything.

Music Quiz

Fenster writes: Those of you who follow current pop music might have some sense of the right answers here.  I would not have a clue. I will list five current acts.  Then I will list how they are described by … Continue reading

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A Modest Proposal on Asset Forfeiture

Fenster writes: I don’t know if you have followed the issue of asset forfeiture in these United States.  It is a situation that smells something rotten. You may know that the law often allows police or other authorities to keep … Continue reading

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Gallup Weighs in on Free Speech on Campus

Fenster writes: Gallup has released the results of polling on the issue of free speech on campus.

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Notes on “Bone Tomahawk”

Fenster writes: In the past couple of years I don’t think I have enjoyed a movie more than Bone Tomahawk.  But will I respect it in the morning? Instincts first and reflection later so let’s start with what prompted satisfaction.

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Double Feature: “Hope and Glory” and “Queen and Country”

Fenster writes: I wrote here about Linklater’s Before . . . films, which examined two lives in more or less real time, covering 18 years in three separate films.  And Fabrizio wrote here about Gett, the third film in a … Continue reading

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Free Harvard!

Fenster writes: I admire Ron Unz a lot, read his blog-paper daily and support his position on bilingual education.  Alas I cannot warm all that much to his push to make Harvard tuition free.  He is running a slate committed … Continue reading

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Tim Ferriss on (dot dot dot) Seneca

Fenster writes: Over at a related Facebook page the question of podcasts was being tossed around and the name Tim Ferriss came up.  Now Fenster he is at the point where he has to work hard to avoid knowing about … Continue reading

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Arnold Arboretum Early Spring

Fenster writes: I thought the idea of Central Park with 100 foot glass walls was nuts but heck I suppose if you left the park intact it might not be so bad.  Let the condo owners with the blocked views deal … Continue reading

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One Cheer for Multiculturalism, con’t.

Fenster writes: As Fenster wrote at 2Blowhards over 11 years ago now: Words mean different things in different cultural contexts. Christianity means something different to an elderly Anglican than it does to a recently converted tribesman. The same is true, … Continue reading

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Three Links

Fenster writes: Several examples of talking about the weather but really talking about something else, too. 1      On the academic freedom front, a glimmer of reason and from a somewhat unexpected source.  The American Association of University Professors … Continue reading

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