Urban v's the Commentariat

[DotCommunist]

oxford, internships, statesmen gig, and now harvard. Where will it end. A knighthood?

 

[rekil]

I did notice that (really!) as it didn't appear on their announcement thing that i was just flicking through. She is crossing the line though isn't she?

You got confirmation that it's still in place? I can ask about if need be.

 

[frogwoman]

Nerding out?

 

[DotCommunist]

something that one might aplly to spending an afternoon playing warhammer, not studying writing at the most prestigious uni in america

 

[J Ed]

oxford, internships, statesmen gig, and now harvard. Where will it end. A knighthood?

I predict that it will end somewhere between Christopher Hitchens and Melanie Philips.

 

[Bakunin]

I just asked if she's aware of Harvard's role in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti.

 

[Sue]

Win/win - we get a break for a year or two, and she learns to write.

Ever the optimist...

 

[rekil]

She is crossing the line though isn't she?

How about Robert Paul Wolff ?

 

[butchersapron]

How about Robert Paul Wolff ?

Paul Avrich who did the best book on Sacco and Vanzetti was even published by them.

 

[treelover]

What are you suggesting?

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I reckon a meme's coming on...

 

[treelover]

Laurie Penny (UK anarchist), contributing editor of the New Statesman, editor-at-large of The New Inquiry, and a contributor to The Guardian, Vice, The Nation and many other publications, will study the economic history and theory of social movements, with an emphasis on digital culture and linguistics.

I'm sure the Rand Corporation would be happy to fund her studies

 

[rekil]

Paul Avrich who did the best book on Sacco and Vanzetti was even published by them.

Waiting for the Crabapple illustrated edition.

 

[J Ed]

 

[Bakunin]

I just asked if she's aware of Harvard's role in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Still no reply.

I'll file that under 'Inconvenient Truth' shall I, Penny Dreadful?

 

[Awesome Wells]

says millionaire celebrity Russell Brand.

 

[killer b]

cutting.

 

[classicdish]

I'm getting really bored of Penny and Crabapple.

Surely there are lots of people in the Commentariat?

 

[tim]

"I’ve been feeling for a while now that in order to take my writing to the next level, I needed to stop careering around chasing stories, go back to school and sit my bum down for some serious reading and nerding out. This fellowship is an unbelievable opportunity to do just that."

Oh man, I'm dying reading that.

She's very good at stringing cliches together, Let's hope she doesn't lose that skill at Harvard.

 

[equationgirl]

She's going to be the smartest girl at the smartest university, isn't she?

I wonder how she's funding it - I read a book about someone who did an expose on the Harvard MBA system and he reckoned with fees and living expenses it was $250k over two years to do it. They were churning out 900 students a year with that qualification a few years ago, might even be more now.

 

[phildwyer]

She's going to be the smartest girl at the smartest university, isn't she?

 

[Balbi]

She's going to come back all Melanie Phillipsd up.

 

[flypanam]

She's going to come back all Melanie Phillipsd up.

She might not want to come back. I'm sure she has dreams of working at NYT or even Harpers Magazine. Why limit one's genius to the UK when the USA is where all your buddies live.

 

[J Ed]

She might not want to come back. I'm sure she has dreams of working at NYT or even Harpers Magazine. Why limit one's genius to the UK when the USA is where all your buddies live.

Good.

 

[rekil]

Politics of envy innit.

 

[J Ed]

Politics of envy innit.

Some people actually have to work for a living, yah?

 

[phildwyer]

Politics of envy innit.

I wouldn't call it "politics."

 

[J Ed]

Already has the Hitchens-style fauxcilist terminology down. I'm sure you will find plenty of comrades, Laurie.

 

[benedict]

Already has the Hitchens-style fauxcilist terminology down. I'm sure you will find plenty of comrades, Laurie.

Urgh. To be honest I feel for the Harvard undergrads who are going to have to endure her sitting in on their classes.

 

[DotCommunist]

i don't, they'll be cut from the same cloth.

 

[Theisticle]

What dross (although fairly typical of the NS): http://www.newstatesman.com/society...et-married-until-we-have-equality-certificate