The Liberal Avenger: Sunday Night with Stirling Newberry: American Thermidor

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Sunday, April 03, 2005

Sunday Night with Stirling Newberry: American Thermidor

Here's some great Stirling Newberry for a Sunday evening:

His latest Truthout Editorial (American Thermidor) - How the cycle of deficits has kept the right in power in America
Some additional discussion/expansion of the above on his Kos diary

I took a lot of economics at Cal when I was an undergraduate and I loved it, but I was a piss-poor student and never immersed myself into it the way that I should have or the way that I wish I had in hindsight. I wish that Stirling Newberry had been around back then as an alive and opinionated Berkeley economics professor.

It's not too late to learn from him, however, and unlike back then, it costs nothing to "audit" his lectures today, there is no homework and that gnawing distraction of constantly worrying about getting laid that drives so much campus activity has diminished into barely a whimper with marriage, love, children and age.

So, I'll pretend to be Professor Stirling's TA. You have your reading assignment. We'll meet in comments here (section) to discuss what he is trying to say. If things get tough, office hours with Stirling (comments on BOP or Kos) are posted outside his door.

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