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Speculations, mediations, musings, glosses, and occasional dire mutterings at barely audible volume. more

Scott McLemee 
is an essayist, critic, and digital feuilletonist (which is rather like being a blogger, though it sounds more distinguished somehow). more

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Readings

Battle of the Titans 
Dinesh D'Souza and Alan Wolfe debating? Imagine a slime mold in conflict with a patch of mildew. It's just that inspiring.

Not a Bedtime Story 
Ed Petit on The Book of Lost Things

To the Tehran Station 
Not about Edmund Wilson

The Politics of Pants 
And the secret origins of the leisure suit

Recent Work

Fidel Castro: My Life 
A review from Newsday

40 Years of "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual" 
Marking the anniversary of Harold Cruse's great book

Style and Grace 
A review of a book by the late, great Grace Paley from ... sheesh, almost ten years ago.

Oh, Canada 
National identity -- going south?

The LaRouche Tabernacle Choir 
An interview with me about the LaRouche movement, on Pacifica radio in Los Angeles

Open Library 
An interview with Aaron Swartz, one of the developers....

Sailing From Ithaka 
The new report calling for a digital platform for scholarly publishing deserves a wide audience more

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