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1. Joshua Marshall explica o que são e para que servem os tais "superdelegates" do Partido Democrata.
2. Joguinho realmente viciante (indicado pelo Godoy no Twitter. Aliás, o Apostos já tem Twitter - aqui, ó. O meu tá aqui).
3. Discussão sobre o novo livro de Fareed Zakaria, "The Post-American World", com participação do próprio, do Michael Lind (New American Foundation), do Matt Yglesias (The Atlantic), da Ann-Marie Slaughter (Princeton, não conheço), e do David Rieff (que também não conheço). Aqui, o primeiro post da série.
4. Sam Harris aproveita a polêmica em torno do filme "Fitna", curta de 15 minutos que vincula, por meio de imagens, as palavras do Corão ao terrorismo islâmico (no YouTube, acessível aqui e aqui), para discutir o amolecimento do Ocidente diante das ameaças à liberdade de expressão que as reações extremadas a esse tipo de conteúdo representam. Trecho:
The point is not (and will never be) that some free person spoke, or wrote, or illustrated in such a manner as to inflame the Muslim community. The point is that only the Muslim community is combustible in this way. The controversy over Fitna, like all such controversies, renders one fact about our world especially salient: Muslims appear to be far more concerned about perceived slights to their religion than about the atrocities committed daily in its name. Our accommodation of this psychopathic skewing of priorities has, more and more, taken the form of craven and blinkered acquiescence.
There is an uncanny irony here that many have noticed. The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you. Of course, the truth is often more nuanced, but this is about as nuanced as it ever gets: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we peaceful Muslims cannot be held responsible for what our less peaceful brothers and sisters do. When they burn your embassies or kidnap and slaughter your journalists, know that we will hold you primarily responsible and will spend the bulk of our energies criticizing you for "racism" and "Islamophobia."
5. Cristopher Hitchens e Guy Sorman escrevem sobre 1968. Sugeri ao David, aproveitando o mote de seu blog semi-palindrômico, que escrevesse um texto sobre 1986, à moda daqueles antigos do Rino, que, manquilonento que só ele, resolveu sumir de novo do mapa (ao menos parece). Ok, fiz esse adendo apenas para pedir que o Rinoceronte voltasse a escrever. Vamos ver se funciona.
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