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...Pitchfork “Top 500 Songs” Book—Apparently, in the rush to become our generation’s Rolling Stone, the indie-crit tastemaker inadvertently bypassed the righteous Lester Bangs/Hunter Thompson years and landed somewhere in the mire of that magazine’s bloated, self-parodying culture-factory era. And when did the hipsters get coffee tables? 4. The Google Android Phone—What do you want for Christmas, Johnny? An iPhone? Well let me tell you what Uncle Cliff’s going to do for you. No, don?...
...architects know it or not (I’d make the case that Deerhunter does), an exploration of ambient noise in a 2007 rock album is neither novel nor interesting. And yet “Cryptograms” was a critical success in independent circles—blogs, forums, crit-sites, etc.—in exactly the way that it needed to be. Not only did its songs satisfy, but it left the kind of considerable room for growth that induces suspense in fans and critics alike. This, in itself, is yet another device, and it?...
...Zohar, the wellspring of Jewish mysticism, or Cabala. He will do nine more volumes, all rendered from the Zohar's original Aramaic. The work has received ecstatic advance reviews ("A superbly fashioned translation and a commentary that opens up the Zohar to the English-speaking world," blurbed lit-crit colossus Harold Bloom), and two weeks ago it won a $10,000 Koret Jewish Book Award for "monumental contribution to the history of Jewish thought." Beneath the praise runs an undercurrent of awe that someone was crazy enough to take...
...according to Thomas, the movement’s alternative practices, spurning the traditional rigors of scholarship, have only “sapped the intellectual regimen” of HLS. Crit professors have come to dominate intellectual life on the school’s campus—and have tried, with great success, to see their brand of radical theory seep into the curriculum and influence the next generation of lawyers. Most perniciously, Crits have attempted to remake society through laws, to purge society of all its biases—racial, gender, or otherwise. They try to do this through censorship...
...becomes clear that what Thomas dislikes most is a lack of principles, a “bonelessness” that he detects in both Ogletree and Clark. Neither are willing to stand for principles, he contends—only for power. To Thomas, this is worse than being a Crit. Crits and other far-left advocates will always exist and can be expected to advocate loudly for their cause. They even will continue to throw around accusations of racism against those who show insufficient support for affirmative action, in order to intimidate others to go along with their goals. Thomas...