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Commentary on politics, history, culture, and literature by two Dartmouth graduates and their buddies
WHO WE ARE Chien Wen Kung graduated from Dartmouth College in 2004 and majored in History and English. He is currently a civil servant in Singapore. Someday, he hopes to pursue a PhD in History. John Stevenson graduated from Dartmouth College in 2005 with a BA in Government and War and Peace Studies. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He hopes to pursue a career in teaching and research. Kwame A. Holmes did not graduate from Dartmouth. However, after graduating from Florida A+M University in 2003, he began a doctorate in history at the University of Illinois--Urbana Champaign. Having moved to Chicago to write a dissertation on Black-Gay-Urban life in Washington D.C., he attached himself to the leg of John Stevenson and is thrilled to sporadically blog on the Dartmouth Observer. Feel free to email him comments, criticisms, spelling/grammar suggestions. BLOGS/WEBSITES WE READ The American Scene Arts & Letters Daily Agenda Gap Stephen Bainbridge Jack Balkin Becker and Posner Belgravia Dispatch Black Prof The Corner Demosthenes Daniel Drezner Five Rupees Free Dartmouth Galley Slaves Instapundit Mickey Kaus The Little Green Blog Left2Right Joe Malchow Josh Marshall OxBlog Bradford Plumer Political Theory Daily Info Andrew Samwick Right Reason Andrew Seal Andrew Sullivan Supreme Court Blog Tapped Tech Central Station UChicago Law Faculty Blog Volokh Conspiracy Washington Monthly Winds of Change Matthew Yglesias ARCHIVES BOOKS WE'RE READING CW's Books John's Books STUFF Site Feed    |
Friday, September 27, 2002
Christopher Hitchens is leaving The Nation. Andrew Sullivan says, "Now there really is no reason to read it any more." Tim, any comments? Hitchens's departure makes me think about the phenomenon of people switching their political allegiances (I'm not suggesting that Hitchens has done that, although you certainly can't call him a typical leftist). I'm not terribly well-informed on this, but it seems to me that more people move from left to right than vice-versa. One thinks of Norman Podhoretz, David Horowitz, Reagan, and other neoconservatives. You might even put me in this category. But the other way? Michael Lind is one name that comes to mind; I don't know any others. I would also be interested in hearing from my fellow observers on how they arrived at their political, social, and cultural outlooks. Also, how assured are we in these outlooks? That is, is it conceivable that they might change, even radically, subject to future events? |