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Author and MFA alum Hector Tobar ’96 writes for the Los Angeles Times. “In the House of the Interpreter,” the new memoir by the celebrated African writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o, takes us to the hopeful and turbulent world of 1950s Kenya. And it begins with a startling image. Ngugi is a teenager, returning home from [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2012 No Comments »
Philosophy professor Aaron James writes for Salon.com. Excerpted from James’ forthcoming book, “Assholes: A Theory.” Assholes largely share a thick sense of moral entitlement. Just as hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue, late 19th and early 20th century businessmen like Cecil Rhodes, Albert Beveridge and John D. Rockefeller all felt a need [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 15th, 2012 No Comments »
History professor Jon Wiener writes for The Los Angeles Times. In 2007, when President George W. Bush‘s White House spokesperson, Dana Perino, was asked a question about one of the biggest foreign policy crises in American history, she drew a blank. “I was panicked a bit because I really don’t know about … the [...]
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