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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    |
Monday, January 27, 2003
The John Stevenson Award For Pompous Paternalism The first recipient of the award, for his awarding of both the Noam Chomsky and Shimon Peres Awards to an unnamed D contributor, is Mr. John Stevenson. Mr. Stevenson offers prizes for both anti-Zionism and ignorance to the author of said piece, and yet offers no reason why the piece is either. Mr. Stevenson is faster to label dissent vis-a-vis Israel as anti-Zionist than any Jew I know, and for this, perhaps he deserves another award. If anyone thinks of a name, let me know. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that Israeli Arabs are not afforded all the freedom of Israeli Jews, Israel is reluctant in allowing free reign to both UN workers and reporters, is ruled by a "military elite," etc. This is not to say there are no "good reasons" for some of these things (they would be disputable on their merits), but the cocksureness with which John tends to dismiss dissenting opinions and not take up the arguments offered in the award-winning D letter on their merits makes John the obvious first recipient of the John Stevenson Award. |