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Friday, September 18, 2020

Jonathan Turley, Alan Dershowitz And A Guy I Know

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Turley https://jonathanturley.org/2020/09/16/dershowitz-sues-cnn-for-300000000-in-defamation-action/#comments Dershowitz: https://www.ga...

Monday, September 14, 2020

Literature Profs, Love What You Teach

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Mark Edmundson’s essay: https://theamericanscholar.org/teach-what-you-love/#.X1_y3i1q2hA My two cents: Nice essay. I’d be less tolerant of...

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Sunday, September 13, 2020

On Removing David Hume’s Name From A University Of Edinburgh Building And A Few Related Issues

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Tweet: The university of Edinburgh @EdinburghUni, folks: ed.ac.uk/news/students/… "The David Hume Tower will be known as 40 George Squ...

The Toxic World View Of Ta Nehisi Coates

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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/the-toxic-world-view-of-ta-nehisi-coates-120512

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

A Definition Of What A Poem Is

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Isn’t written poetry anything coherent first word to last set in broken lines, lines that stop short of the margin? These poems may be excel...

The Joke Is On Heidegger

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Heidegger was an anti capitalist. Joke’s on him. His analysis is of a non-fleeing, resolute, authentic dasein confronting groundlessness and...

Saturday, August 29, 2020

?Two Sides To The Death Of George Floyd And The Shooting Of Jacob Blake?

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I grant that these two articles come from clearly politically right journals; and I grant that they may be tendentious, written perhaps to...

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itzik basman: I got my B.A. in English Literature from the University of British Columbia ("U.B.C."). I got my Secondary School Teaching Certificate from U.B.C. and my Masters degree in English Literature from U.B.C. writing my 125 page Masters' Thesis on the novels of Mordecai Richler. I attended Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, graduating with my Juris Doctor . After articling and completing the Ontario Bar Admissions Course, I was called to the bar in Ontario. I have practiced law to date in Toronto, specializing in Family Law, Civil Litigation, and Appellate Advocacy. I have pleaded cases in all civil Ontario courts, including many times in the Ontario Court of Appeal, as well as the Supreme Court of Canada. I practice law under the firm name Itzik Basman Barrister, James Rose, my former associate, having died January 23, 2011. I published on line in 2004 my extended essay on "Hamlet, entitled Futility As Tragedy: An Interpretation Of Hamlet". It can be found at Lulu.Com. It was critically reviewed both in Kritikos and Politics and Culture. I live in Toronto.

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