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Today's Sunday Times is chock-full of Columbia nuts. First, the lead story in the Magazine, by Mark Lilla, is regurgitated CC, and any good humanities student worth his or her weight in Enlightenment and secular/liberal theory should be able to follow his argument and add a dash of insight to boot. Then, the Lives essay is by a J-school prof who meets up with a former story subject and has a ball. Over in Arts, there's a long article about "mumblecore," a micro-genre of indie film in which Barnard grad Greta Gerwig (and the WBAR station) are key elements. And, finally, there's a pretty long piece about the guys behind Indoctrinate U, which we know you all love.

Read more: Contemporary Civilization, Haters, Movies, New York Times, Secularism, Wbar

August 19, 2007 @ 6:29 PM | Comments 19 comments | Add comment Post a comment | Link to this article | | Email this post | Share on Facebook

Posted by Matthew K. Tabor: [#1] [reply] [track]
( posted August 19, 2007 at 7:36 PM )
The last link is broken.
Posted by Sprinkles: [#2] [reply] [track]
( posted August 19, 2007 at 8:55 PM )
Bwog, why have you not mentioned Meade Anderson (CC '07) passing away?
Posted by oye: [#3] [reply] [track]
( posted August 19, 2007 at 11:00 PM )
bwog, you have some beeeeg cojones!
Posted by rjt: [#4] [reply] [track]
( posted August 19, 2007 at 11:01 PM )
You know what my new pet peeve is? When people claim that their coining of genres is "ironic" or "accidental" in order to pretend they don't want to be associated with a movement. "Mumblecore" is solidly in that category along with "new rave" and "slowcore." All of these were supposedly originally said "as a joke," and they're also all completely people trying to own their 15 minutes as hard as they can.
Posted by hmm: [#5] [reply] [track] (in reply to #4)
( posted August 19, 2007 at 11:26 PM )
That's an awfully narrow pet peeve. Does it happen often?
Posted by rjt: [#6] [reply] [track] (in reply to #5)
( posted August 19, 2007 at 11:49 PM )
Not really, but I've noticed it these three times in the past few months. That's why it's a new pet peeve. It could fade quickly if nobody else does it soon.
Posted by Stephen: [#7] [reply] [track] (in reply to #2)
( posted August 19, 2007 at 11:58 PM )
wow. that's awful, i didn't hear about that until now.
Posted by well: [#8] [reply] [track]
( posted August 20, 2007 at 12:16 AM )
Mark Lilla's essay makes me really excited for CC.
Posted by too bad: [#9] [reply] [track]
( posted August 20, 2007 at 1:22 AM )
some grad student who just serves up a shallow interpretation he picked up at that weeks course lecture is all you'll get.

no, i'm not jaded at all.
Posted by not my experience: [#10] [reply] [track]
( posted August 20, 2007 at 6:02 AM )
due to a weird twist of fate i had a different history prof every semester of cc and lit hum. they were all awesome. definitely the most important course you can take - i wish i could retake the course now because i feel like i would get so much more out of it.
Posted by crack: [#11] [reply] [track]
( posted August 20, 2007 at 7:23 AM )
i hate these bwog faggots. seriously, nobody reads this shit except white liberal faggots who are aching for the new york experience. god damn.
Posted by Cassandra: [#12] [reply] [track] (in reply to #11)
( posted August 20, 2007 at 8:29 AM )
And the banhammer shall fall quickly, with wrath.
Posted by rjt: [#13] [reply] [track] (in reply to #11)
( posted August 20, 2007 at 12:11 PM )
Yeah! Damn the man! Tell 'em! On the internet!
Posted by slater: [#14] [reply] [track]
( posted August 20, 2007 at 3:19 PM )
[ external link to www.slate.com ]
Posted by does: [#15] [reply] [track]
( posted August 20, 2007 at 4:09 PM )
anyone on here care that Michael Vick pleaded guilty today? J/w.
Posted by Apparently: [#16] [reply] [track] (in reply to #15)
( posted August 21, 2007 at 2:10 AM )
He's taken up a new job already:

Posting as #11 on this thread
Posted by pleaded?: [#17] [reply] [track] (in reply to #15)
( posted August 21, 2007 at 1:44 PM )
really? past participle does not a good sentence make.
Posted by hitchens: [#18] [reply] [track] (in reply to #14)
( posted August 21, 2007 at 2:29 PM )
is a condescending asshat. i have no respect for his "I'm soooo smart, watch me reason out of this wet paper bag I constructed" antics
Posted by Mark Lilla: [#19] [reply] [track]
( posted August 22, 2007 at 2:32 AM )
how to write an article for the new york times magazine: an academic's guide.

1st paragraph: scintillating discussion of current events

2nd-55th paragraphs: CC paper

56th paragraph: desperate attempt to summarize previous 53 paragraphs and reconnect with purported theme introduced in the first (and billed as the point of the article on the cover).
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