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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    |
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Yes, I'm still alive Military service is over, and so too is my last ever holiday before working life begins. I've just returned from the latter in England, and am seriously jetlagged at the moment. Oh, and the World Cup is on too. I see that John, less than one year into graduate school, is as prolix as ever. I almost understand him this time -- although I am still figuring out what his last two paragraphs are up to. This plain student of history yearns for examples to demonstrate the soundness of "the performance of the questioning thereby creates the questioner, the audience, and the response"; and "Questions are interesting because they force us into a paradoxically private yet interpersonal (universal democratic) space which is one of the few spaces where truly human, free, and equal persons can be said to exist." Dartmouth's valedictorian Robert Butts '06, former contributor to this august website, is the 2006 valedictorian. Congratulations Rob! (I should also mention that Rob is a member of Alpha Theta, to which the 2004 valedictorian, John, and myself also belonged.) |