[lbo-talk] New Yorker: Conflict of Interests, by Nicholas Lemann

[shag]

i read this while i was vacating. but i didn't get what was so important 
about it. interest group politics as what politics is all about is standard 
fare in high school and college poli sci courses. maybe the reviewer just 
lost the plot - or wrote in a way that meant that i lost the plot - but. 
where's the lip gloss? ok. so frank is a wee bit biased, and thinks that 
interest groups are bad things, etc. etc. i remember reading this and 
spitting out my coffee when i got to the part where author says it's 
tempting to think of frank as a marxist. *snort* anyhoo. more serious 
matters...

would someone pick on sarah palin's bun? the one she forces her hair into, 
only after a long day, it starts to come undone exposing the facade that 
her hair naturally poofs up there.

kthnxbye!

At 07:59 PM 9/13/2008, Jordan Hayes wrote:
>[ Ok, how about this for a conversation starter?  I think this reviewer is 
>on to something, and if you have 10 minutes, give the article a read: he 
>ties it into Thomas Frank's new book, too; as a kicker, Michael Hoover 
>mentioned onlist in 2006 that Leo Strauss hated and attacked Bentley's 
>book :)  --JMH ]
>
>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/08/11/080811crat_atlarge_lemann
>
>Does the wrangling of interest groups corrupt politics-or constitute it?
>
>In a year saturated with political conversation, can there be any topic 
>that has not yet been discussed? Well, here's one: 2008 is the centenary 
>of a curious and mesmerizing book that was long considered the most 
>important study of politics and society ever produced by an American-"The 
>Process of Government: A Study of Social Pressures," by Arthur Fisher 
>Bentley. The reason its big anniversary hasn't been celebrated is that 
>"The Process of Government" is an ex-classic, now sunk into obscurity. The 
>reason it should be celebrated is not just that it deserved its former 
>place in the canon but also that it is uncannily relevant to this 
>Presidential election.
>
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