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How to delete old backups and other ways to free up space in iCloud
iCloud automagically backs up all of the data on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. So, if you ever lose, replace, update, or simply restore your device, you can easily get back to right where you left off. Unfortunately, iCloud backup is so automagical that it can quickly fill up the 5GB Apple gives you for free, preventing future backups or forcing you to buy additional -- non free - storage.
Sure, you can go through and delete iCloud emails with hefty attachments, or be frugal about just how many -- and how large --documents you keep in the cloud, but you can also control just exactly what gets backed up, removing anything that's not urgent or important to you, and you can also manually delete old backups from devices you no longer have, or you simply don't need anymore. And that can instantly free up considerable, valuable space for the stuff you do care about.
How to delete an iCloud backup
Old backups, especially if they're for devices you've since lost, given away, sold, upgraded, or otherwise don't have anymore, can be a huge waste of your iCloud space. Likewise, even backups of the devices you do use, if they're several months old, might not be worth keeping around any more. Since all the iPhones, iPods, and iPads you've ever connected to your iCloud account share the same 5GB storage pool, cleaning out what you no longer need can give you back a lot of breathing room. It's easy to do, if tricky to find.
- Launch the Settings app
- Tap on iCloud
- Tap on Storage and Backup
- Tap on Manage Storage
- Check out your current backups stored on iCloud. (Here you can see two iPhones, including one replaced at the Apple Store last week and so no longer needed).
- Tap on the backup you want to remove from iCloud
- Tap on Delete Backup
- Tap on Turn Off and Delete
That's it, that backup has now been removed and your iCloud account should show a nicer, healthier balance.
How to manually manage what gets backed up to iCloud
Once you've deleted all the old backups you don't need any more, the next thing to check is what's being backed up now, and whether or not all of it needs to be backed up. For example, backing up the Camera Roll can use up a large amount of your iCloud storage. Since Photo Stream captures all the photo data anyway, and isn't counted against your total storage usage, turning off Camera Roll backup can save you considerable space. You will LOSE backups of videos, but those same videos can chew through your free iCloud data allotment anyway. Again, it's easy to see and control what gets backed up to iCloud, once you know where to look.
- Launch the Settings app
- Tap iCloud near the bottom
- Tap Storage and Backup near the bottom
- Tap Manage Storage
- If you have multiple devices on the same iCloud account, tap on the name of your device
- You'll see a list of apps currently being backed up to iCloud. Not all apps will be shown immediately. Too see them all, tap Show All
- For any apps you don't really want or need to be backed up, switch the toggle button to Off
The Camera Roll above is 35GB. That could cost you quite a bit in iCloud storage fees. Turning it off, you save a ton of space. Just remember, while Photo Stream will keep your still photos safe, your videos won't get backed up so you'll have to take care of those yourself.
How to downgrade your iCloud storage
If you previously bought more iCloud storage space, and now, after having cleaned out your iClouds, you decide you don't any more, you can make sure you don't get billed again next time your payment comes due. iCloud billing is on a yearly cycle, so chance are you'll still get the extra storage you paid for for a while, but you won't get charged again.
- Launch the Settings app
- Tap iCloud near the bottom
- Tap Storage and Backup near the bottom
- Tap Buy More Storage
- Tap Downgrade Options near the bottom
- Login with your Apple ID password
- Choose your new plan from the available options
The downgrade will take effect at your next billing cycle (one year after you bought the additional storage).
How to get more help with iCloud
If you still need help with any other iCloud feature, head on over to our iCloud Forum and ask away! And if you have any of your own tips on saving space in iCloud, leave it in the comments below!
- How to set up and use iCloud mail, contacts, and calendars
- How to set up and use iTunes in the Cloud
- How to set up and use iTunes Match
- How to set up and use Photo Stream
- How to set up and use Documents in the Cloud
- How to set up and use Find my iPhone
- How to set up and use Find my Friends
Ally Kazmucha and Chris Oldroyd contributed sections to this articles.
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Ok I need some serious help.
I have both an iPhone and an iPad, and my next back up for my iPhone is 6.7GB... The problem is, I have absolutely no idea where that 6.7GB comes from! My highest app file is camera roll and thats only 400MB and I even turned that off. My highest active file is iBooks and thats only 35MB, and only 18 apps total (half are under 1MB.)
My iPad has significantly more apps on backup, and its highest app is iBooks with 200MB (second one drops to 15MB) and that only takes up 450MB.
Both my iPad have the same settings of backing up Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Bookmarks, Photostream, Documents, and Find my Iphone.
So how can there be such a disparity between the file size of these two devices and what exactly is taking all my iPhone space??
The backup of your phone in iCloud is your entire device. You don't have to worry about adding this and that up, just look at the amount of space used on the entire device and that should be the size of your backup. Backups of data from programs are separate, and will add to that total over and above the size of the phone backup itself. Email is also separate, but that storage isn't counted against the total.
Ok, I don't think I quite understand.
If its my entire device its storing, then my iPad should significantly take up a bigger portion of my iCloud because its 64GB & my iPhone is a 32GB, and my iPad is consuming more GBs of data on both the HDD, and as well as the data represented on iCloud.
So at least in my observation, the iPad is dominating my data consumption in every measurable and yet is 1/12 of the iCloud demand compared to my iPhone.
I am having a problem learning how to get my Iphone 4S to back uo to Icloud on my computer...It keeps telling me there no backups on my computer or phone????
This article was extremely helpful; thanks Rene!!
If I delete my old iphone, will it delete everything I moved over from it? Right now mine shows my old and current iphone. I just want to make sure I won't lose anything.
I'm with Chris, my iphone was stolen and distroyed. I have all the stuff I "clouded" on my ipad now. I want to make sure if I delete the back up for the phone I won't lose my contact and pictures from the ipad. I haven't replaced my phone yet so I wasn't sure if I should wait or if I am okay to get it deleted. My computers a dino but I guess if I need to I can back up stuff to there but I would rather not. Please help!?
No, it won't delete your current device's data, though you have to have a backup saved for the current device just like Christi has done. The backup for the current device will be an independent backup, you can confirm this by checking the backup details from your iCloud storage settings, you would see all the items that are backed up there. You can also check the sizes of both backups to figure out that the data is contained in both places. I would advice you find a computer to save the old backup though, to eliminate doubts. To get a better understanding of iCloud backup storage, read http://iphonemonk.com/how-to-delete-icloud-backup-data-and-apps/
i try to delete an icloud backup in my icloud account and they told me that i cannot delete the back up because it is in use. but i wan to clear everything inside.. help, what should i do..


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Productivity, corporate ideology, and getting your "share": Rethinking liberalism continued
by John MacBeath Watkins
ADP, the company that does my payrolls, includes in
promotional material a common bromide -- that automation "can cut costs dramatically and free up time for higher-value work."
And that's generally been the argument for productivity growth. It means more wealth, therefore it will make you wealthier.
Except, of course, that whether this is true depends very much on who you are, and what your prospects for participating in the new wealth are. Andrew Carnegie became one of the richest men in America by always making sure his steel mills had the best technology. He'd seen the effects of falling behind first-person. His father was a weaver in Dunfermline, Scotland, who lost his profession when the handweavers were put out of business by the big weaving mills. The family had to borrow money to move to America, where Andrew's first job was as a "bobbin boy" at a textile mill in Pennsylvania at age 13.
He worked 12 hour days, six days a week, changing spools of thread for $1.20 a week. But he was a man of great ability. Fortunately, through a family connection, he was able to get a job as a telegraph messenger boy, and his energy, ability to learn, and hard work brought him to the attention of his superiors. He was more a self-made man than any other I can think of, but he never lost sight of the things that helped him. And he never forgot that his father had been a skilled man and a hard worker, yet had been ruined.
That's the trouble with disruptive technologies. Our society gives us time in our youth to learn a profession, and expects us to make our way based on those skills for the rest of our lives. But when skills become obsolete, it tosses people aside, with little chance to ride the new wave.
And as to the higher-value work, was the elder Carnegie doing work that called on his human abilities to a greater extent as a weaver in Scotland or as a textile mill worker in Pennsylvania? Was the work less routine, more challenging, requiring more of his judgement?
Perhaps for the term "higher-value work" we should substitute "harder to automate work." Higher-value is a term that makes us think of getting a promotion, of using our judgement more. Yet the jobs created when others are destroyed are not necessarily of that nature.
Janitorial work is hard to automate. So is sex work, the ultimate "high-touch" profession. We've seen a decline in workforce participation as productivity has soared. And it has soared. Look at this graph, from my favorite magazine, The Economist (from an excellent article
, which you should read):
The other problem is one unique to capitalism. The distinguishing characteristic of a capitalist system is that the major source of wealth is the investment of capital in the means of production, rather than, say, conquering more land or enslaving more people.
As a result, there is a tendency for wealth to concentrate in the hands of those who own a lot of capital. And with wealth, comes influence, and with influence, comes the
Rising inequity creates unrest, seen in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the form of labor strife and extremist movements.
Part of the problem here is that the distribution of wealth depends in part on politics. In the U.S., decisions at the federal level have moved the tax burden from those who make their money by owning things to those who make their money working for wages. Wages were already declining as a percentage of the GDP, as you can see in the chart from
this site, which has several other charts that may interest you
The decline dates from about the time corporate raiders started changing the way companies do business. In part, this reflected changes in the banking business that made it possible to raise money for a takeover. In part, it reflected a new orientation in business, the belief that companies should be managed for the highest possible stock prices for shareholders. Historically, public corporations prior to this had been managed on the basis that shareholders were one of the groups served by the company, along with bondholders, creditors, employees and customers.
The new orientation justified making war on a company's own employees to produce higher profits to benefit shareholders, stripping assets to pay off the debt contracted in a takeover, and other tactics that would in an earlier age have been considered bad for the company. Private equity companies, such as Mitt Romney's old company, Bain Capital, raised money from investors to do similar work.
I have a book to recommend on this subject,
The Shareholder Value Myth
, by Lynn Stout, Distinguished Professor of Corporate and Business Law at Cornell Law School. Prof. Stout makes a compelling argument that the pursuit of "shareholder value" -- a term with difficulties of its own -- has been bad for investors, corporations, and the public.
The problem is that we've seen this movie before. It was a bit more direct when federal troops killed 30
The first unplanned words from the moon
by John MacBeath Watkins
When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon, everyone was eager to hear man's first words from another
world. We all know what he said, and we all know about the controversy -- he muffed his lines and failed to say "a man."
But what interested me that day in 1969 was the first unscripted words from the moon. And they told me more about the moon, and less about mankind. Here's what Armstrong said after his famous line:
And the--the surface is fine and powdery. I can--I can pick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine, sandy particles.
Now, that's an authentic astronaut talking the way those guys talked.
Free-lunch Conservatives
by John MacBeath Watkins
Our political taxonomy puts "fiscally conservative" voters mostly in the Republican voting bloc, but this seems indefensible. The last Republican president to act in a fiscally responsible manner was George H.W. Bush, who realized that his party had no taste for real cuts in the budget and raised taxes to deal with the deficit.
Republicans hated him for that. Merely failing to deal the a budget deficit would probably have allowed him to be re-elected, but raising taxes was not acceptable.
Yet About.com
informs us
that "...the Republican Party is most often credited with creating the fiscal conservative ideal, despite the big-spending tendencies of the most recent GOP administrations."
Substitute "fiscal conservative rhetoric" for "fiscal conservative ideal" and you'll have it about right. The Republican Party from St. Ronald of Reagan onward has been all about lowering taxes. Reagan claimed that the effect of his lower taxes would be such an economic boost that revenues would increase rather than decrease. When this did not turn out to be the case, Republicans chose to stick with tax cuts and invent a series of justifications.
Reagan vastly increased the size of the government and tripled the deficit. While there was some budget cutting early in his administration, it soon became evident that Republicans do not, in practice, want smaller government. They want government that spends less on Democratic priorities and more on Republican priorities.
In short, they want more goodies for their side, and they want to pay in less in taxes. This is not fiscal conservatism. It is free-lunch conservatism. It is the reason Republicans are the party of "borrow and spend."
The "fiscal conservative" label has been a bit of marketing genius, but at some point, our country is going to have to face the truth. The tax revolt and the anti-tax movement have never been about cutting government, they've always been about getting a free lunch. Oh, sure, Republicans have talked a good game about cutting the sorts of programs Democrats support, but since they've wanted to spend more on Republican constituencies, there's always been an element of "we cheat the other guy and pass the savings on to you!" in their rhetoric.
If you want a tax cut, and you want it paid for out of someone else's pocket, how fiscally conservative are you?
The concept of "the other" has an enduring appeal to Republicans of a nativist bent. About 13% of the people living in America at present are foreign born, a percentage last seen in the 1920, which were about the peak for the Klu Klux Klan, then preaching
"One Hundred Percent Americanism"
Republicans have clearly campaigned against those who who are not 100 percent American by the standards applied by the Klan back in the 1920s -- White and native-born. Only what might be called the "Bundy fringe" have violated the law,as the KKK liked to do, but the nativists have this time allied themselves with the free-lunch conservatives. One group wants to cut a certain kind of spending that they think benefits "those people," the other wants to cut taxes regardless of the cost to later generations or society as a whole.
It's a marriage made in one of the inner circles of the Inferno.
More notes for a novel in 1940s noir
by John MacBeath Watkins
"Get your mitts off me," I said.
"Those are your mitts," the bouncer answered. "See, they're connected with a string that goes through your sleeves."
It was a nice, quiet joint. There hadn't been a knifing in a month, and they'd hired librarians to shush the
Former professions of famous writers
John MacBeath Watkins
Most writers did something else before they became famous writers. I've long been fascinated by this, because the experiences they bring to bear on their writing shapes the narrative.
Herman Melville was a merchant mariner who later became a customs inspector when he found his writing wouldn't support him.
Aphra Bhen, secret agent
Mark Twain was a printer's devil, then a riverboat pilot before the Civil War and a journalist after that, before becoming a successful novelist, essayist and lecturer.
Dante Alighieri was a cavalry soldier and later joined the physicians' and apothecaries' guild before writing
The Divine Comedy
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, better known only as Cervantes, was also a military man, serving as a marine in the Spanish Navy during the Battle of Lepanto, where he was wounded three times, leaving his left arm limp. Returning to Spain, his ship was captured by an Algerian corsair, and he worked as a slave for five years and made four unsuccessful escape attempts before his parents ransomed him and he could begin his literary career.
Solomon Northup, born free in New York,
was kidnapped
in Washington D.C. and worked for 12 years as a slave before he was rescued. New York had in 1840 established funding for rescuing its citizens who were kidnapped and sold into slavery, so apparently this was a problem for quite a few free New York blacks.
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, and escaped at about the age of 18, later writing his autobiography and becoming an influential abolitionist and reformer.
Chester Himes get busted for armed robbery when he was 19, and began writing in prison. If you haven't read
If he Hollers Let Him Go
, do so immediately.
Nathaniel Hawthorne began writing while working at the Boston Customs House. He was also a magazine editor at one point, but earned most of his money in the customs service.
Captain Frederick Marrayat, who set the pattern of square-rigged adventure stories, served in the British Navy, as a midshipman under the infamous Lord Cochrane, later invented a lifeboat (and got the name "lifeboat" Marrayat) and developed a flag signalling system known as Marrayat's Code. After the Napoleonic wars ended, he held the rank of captain and could still get commands, but he wrote a novel,
Frank Mildmay, or, The Naval Officer
, and sent it off to a publisher. When he returned from a two-year voyage, his book had been published and he was a best-selling author. He gave up his commission and devoted himself to writing.
Like Twain, Ernest Hemingway was a journalist before he became a novelist, but not until after he served as an ambulance driver in World War I. George Orwell was a journalist as well as well, but not until after he'd served as a policeman in Burma. Orwell also served in an Anarchist unit in the Spanish Civil War.
Joseph Conrad ran away from his home in Poland at the age of 17, and became a merchant mariner. He became a Captain in the British merchant marine, and worked at that until his health forced him to return to land and become a writer. Another merchant mariner was Jack Vance, a science fiction writer. He was nearly blind, but memorized the eye chart to become a able-bodied seaman.
Vance also studied physics and engineering. Robert Heinlein, another science fiction writer, studied engineering at the Naval Academy and had a career as a naval officer until he was forced by his health to retire and become a writer. Isaac Asimov, famous for inventing the laws of robotics, was a biochemistry professor. Arthur C. Clarke was a pensions auditor before World War II, became a radar operator during the war, and studied physics and mathematics after the war.
Aphra Bhen, one of the first famous northern European women writers, was a spy until poverty and debt drove her to writing. Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, John le Carre, Muriel Spark, and Compton McKenzie (an early gay writer and author of
Whiskey Galore
) also served in intelligence. Christopher Marlowe, who bought jokes for his plays from Shakespeare, was also a spy.
Mary Wollstonecraft worked as a lady's companion and a governess before becoming pregnant out of wedlock, not once, but twice. The second time she married British author William Godwin and began her career writing and campaigning for women's rights.
Jane Austen, born to the landed gentry, lived at home and seems not to have worked outside of it before beginning her literary career.
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi, aka Baroness Orczy,
her noble birth, had little money and worked as a translator before writing Gothic novels which are still read.
Charlotte and Anne Bronte were governesses, and Emily Bronte worked as a teacher until the 17-hour days broke her health and she returned home.
W. Somerset Maugham was a medical student when he started writing, but he was so successful as a writer he had no need to practice medicine.
Dorothy Sayers is another who gained literary success without a prior career. She was also one of the first women to receive an MA from Somerville College in Oxford when those degrees became available to women.
Josephine Tey was the pen name of Elizabeth Mackintosh, a physical education teacher.
Ursula Le Guin did an MA in French and Italian literature, but worked as a secretary before she became one of the most respected living writers of science fiction and fantasy.
George Eliot was a magazine editor named Mary Evans before she was published as a writer under he pen name. George Sand was an often-straying housewife named Amantine Dupin before being published under her pen name.
Louisa May Alcott worked as a teacher, seamstress, governess, and domestic helper, before success as a writer allowed her to focus on this craft.
Jack London escaped long hours working in a cannery to become an
oyster pirate
. After his oyster sloop got damaged beyond repair, he worked for the Fish Patrol, hunting poachers such as he had been. He signed on with a sealing schooner, and on finishing the voyage, fell on hard times and became a tramp. At this point in his life, he was still only 17, and became a high school student. A saloon keeper lent him money to go to college when he was admitted, but finances forced him to drop out.
He was 21 when he left for the gold fields of Alaska, and suffered scurvy there. He decided that the only way to get out of poverty was writing, and early on even when published, he was paid badly and late. By 1900, his fortunes had turned, and he made $2,500 writing that year. Keep in mind, that's about what a modest house cost in 1900.
One might have expected a man with such a heroic career to write the ultimate hero stories, but that fell to Robert E. Howard, now remembered for the Conan stories. He did a little journalism and worked as a stenographer for an oil company.
Flannery O'Connor was interested in birds, and raised peacocks, emus and ostriches before gaining her literary fame.
Isabel Allende worked for the U.N. and later translated romances into Spanish before launching her literary career.
Maya Angelou worked as a street-car conductor, night club dancer, prostitute, madame, and actor before gaining success as a writer. Robert Ludlum, after serving in the Marines, became an actor and theatrical producer before writing thrillers.
William Faulner, rejected by the U.S. Army Air Force in World War I, changed the spelling of his name and lied about his birthplace to join the RAF. He was still training when the war ended. He also worked at a post office in New York before being asked to resign for "moral reasons." Faulkner was, of course, a drunk, and likely was drunk on duty. He often elaborated his RAF experiences, fabricating war wounds, including a metal plate in his head.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, born with every advantage, was doing badly in college when he dropped out in 1917 to join the army. He worked for an advertising agency before gaining a reputation as a writer, then drank himself to an early death.
More later.
A nation founded on debt (rethinking liberalism)
by John MacBeath Watkins
There is an email making the rounds of elderly white conservatives that quotes the Founding fathers on "economics, capitalism, and banking."
A sampling:
#1 "A wise and frugal government... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." -- Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801
#2 "A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything." - George Washington
#3 "Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own." - James Madison, Essay on Property, 1792
#4 "Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good." - John AdamsAnd 11 more along those lines. One problem is that in practice, the founding fathers borrowed a great deal of money, much of it from the Dutch, to finance the war. After we'd won our independence, they followed Alexander Hamilton's advice and funded the debt, creating a stable market for securities which private companies could tap when they needed money.
More on the poverty of neoconservative philosophy (rethinking liberalism)
by John MacBeath Watkins
Thinking further on my
earlier post
on the poverty of neoconservative philosophy, it seems to me that I should explore further Leo Strauss's idea that totalitarian is a result of the modern nihilism found in Thomas Hobbes's work. Strauss claimed that what is opposed to this is the effort to build the just society.
First of all, we should note that Marxists are all about building a "just" society, by their own standards. They are great believers in the idea that a just society can be achieved by overthrowing capitalism and building a communist society. The fact that they in practice failed to build a just society reveals defects in their thinking. For Strauss, Marxism represented the negation of any need for the political and economic institutions of society. This is what is known as political nihilism.
James MadisonAnd it's true that Marx made the error of thinking that institutions that cause great harm in society, such as private property and religion, could be eliminated and the harm they caused would stop. He then imagined that the state would wither away, not realizing that when you take away major organizing institutions in society, the gap will be filled by the remaining institutions In this case, the state filled the gap, which is what has happened wherever Marxism has been tried.
But Marx was not the last Marxist. Lenin stressed the need for a vanguard of intellectuals to push for the revolution and head up the revolutionary government. Totalitarianism could not have come from political nihilism, which denied the need for the state, but only from people who firmly believed that they needed to be in control. To claim that Stalin was a political nihilist who didn't believe in the need for political or economic institutions is utter nonsense. Stalin clearly, based on his actions, believed in a strong, centralized state, firmly in control of the economy, the political life, and even the beliefs of its citizens.
Anyone actually wanting to practice political nihilism in a Stalinist state would have been killed. Marx may have preached a sort of political nihilism, but the lacunae in his own philosophy meant that in practice, all Marxist rulers have been firm believers in a powerful central state.
And what of the fascists? Did they believe in abolishing the political, economic, and social institutions of society?
Hardly. They were big believers in the ideology of nationalism, a strong central state, and strong cooperation between the state and industry. They were authoritarian not because they believed political institutions should be abolished, but because they believed in, as Benito Mussolini put it, in "
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
In short, Marxists were totalitarian in practice because they were not believers in the basic tenets of political nihilism.
But were they moral nihilists, a more familiar sort of nihilist?
Strauss deemed Hobbes a nihilist because his philosophy was based on "mere preservation." Hobbes, after all, said that we needed a ruler to enforce laws, so that we would not meet a violent death.
But in saying the ruler has value because he (and the ruler Hobbes had in mind was his pupil, Charles II) does a job of work for the citizen, he was laying the groundwork for democracy. After all, what if the ruler sucks at his job? Shouldn't you be able to fire him? And why should the ruler pass the job on to his first born son? Shouldn't the citizens be able to hire the rulers they want?
Hobbes had invented a new basis for the legitimacy of rulers, which was needed because the 30-Years War and the Reformation had destroyed traditional bases for the legitimacy of rulers. But this new basis for the legitimacy of rulers didn't really support the outcome he wanted, which was the absolute monarchy of his friend and pupil.
Was he a moral nihilist? It's a bit hard for me to see him that way. He believed that the injustice of violent death, of theft and banditry, could only be avoided by having a ruler with the authority to enforce the laws we want enforced. In fact, he wanted a society more just than the chaos of the 30-Years War would permit. He had seen what the breakdown of political and social institutions could do, and charted a path away from that.
In Strauss's eyes, this focus on the material matter of remaining alive made Hobbes a nihilist. Since he was arguing in favor of political institutions, he cannot have been a political nihilist, so he must have been indicting Hobbes as a moral nihilist.
If we were to accept that Hobbes was a moral nihilist, should we also accept that this was the sort of modernist approach to ethics that led to the totalitarian philosophies of fascist and Marxist states?
This seems dubious. Marx clearly was motivated by an effort to build a just society, the same goal Strauss admired; he just disagreed with what constitutes a just society. Lenin agreed with Strauss that society would inevitably be ruled by a small group of the "best" people, he just disagreed with Strauss about the nature of the group that should rule.
Were fascists moral nihilists? I believe that rather, they had a perverted sense of justice. Keep in mind, worse things are done in the name of justice than have ever been contemplated in the name of crime. Mussolini even
referred to fascism as a religion.
The Holocaust, the Inquisition, and the killing fields of Cambodia were not carried out be people who believed in the evil of what they were doing. They were carried out by people with a deep conviction in the justice of purifying the world of bad people. They were following the tenets of their beliefs in building a just world to the logical conclusion. People without such an ideology, such a central myth, people merely concerned with the preservation of their own lives, would not have acted in these ways.
Which may explain why the Nocturnal Council in Plato's
The Laws
bears more than a passing resemblance to the Inquisition. Plato considered central truths, that is, a central myth of society, to be necessary for building a just society, and a body to enforce that belief to be essential. But when it was put into practice, this notion produced a system that was notoriously unjust.
This makes it rather odd that Strauss would place such emphasis on belief in a central myth as being necessary for building a just society. Straussians tend to call that central myth "American Exceptionalism," by which they appear to mean something different than the Marxists who coined the term. Those Marxists claimed that America didn't have the kind of stratified class structure that made Marxism attractive to European workers.
Neoconservatives seem to mean it more in the sense of John Winthrop's 1630 sermon, "
A Model of Christian Charity
" which referred to "
A City Upon a Hill
," indicating the notion that America is a model of what the world should be. This is really a claim of national greatness, not so very different, in fact, from the claims of national greatness made by fascists in Germany and Italy in the 1930s.
Certainly I prefer Winthrop's vision of Christian love and charity to Hitler's vision of a triumphant Aryan race. But it is not the central idea of America. Winthrop wrote his sermon in 1630 for a Puritan audience. Most American settlers were not Puritan. Many were Anglican, or Baptist, or Methodist, or Quaker, or Catholic or Jewish. To say that the Puritan project was the project of America is to vastly overstate their importance. Many of my ancestors were Quaker, and became so after one of them was kicked out of the Puritan church for giving aid and comfort to Quakers. Being the descendant of those who where kicked out of the church Winthrop belonged to for being too inclusive in their associations makes me skeptical of the notion that a Puritan in 1630 defined the essence of America.
The essential nature of the American experiment has much more to do with the thought of John Locke than John Winthrop.Winthrop did not believe in religious tolerance or democracy. He presided over the trial of Anne Hutchinson, who did not agree with the Puritan credo that it took both faith and good works to get into heaven. Like many modern-day Christians, she believed that faith alone was enough. For this she was labeled a heretic and banished from the colony, and Winthrop
called her an "American Jezebel."
Nor was Winthrop an admirer of democracy, saying:
"If we should change from a mixed aristocracy to mere democracy, first we should have no warrant in scripture for it: for there was no such government in Israel ... A democracy is, amongst civil nations, accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government. [To allow it would be] a manifest breach of the 5th Commandment."
To my Catholic and Lutheran readers I should explain that Winthrop was using the Calvinist system for numbering the commandments, so he was referring to "honor they father and mother," not "thou shall not kill."
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Bill of Rights, thought very highly of John Locke and
did not approve of the intolerance of the Puritans
James Madison, who had as much to do with the framing of the Constitution as anyone, argued in Federalist Paper #10 that religion was one of the major sources of faction in a country, and this tendency to faction could only be controlled in a large and diverse republic. Madison was also a major supporter of the Bill of Rights, in which the rule against the establisment of religion ensures that no one can be punished for not believing what people like John Winthrop might think they should.
The vision of America that Jefferson and Madison proposed was one that varies greatly with the vision neoconservatives insist on. The open society they wanted did not rely on perverse readings of ancient texts, but on easily understood concepts embodied in the constitution. Straussian readings tend to seek the hidden meaning of texts, but Jefferson and Madison and the other founding fathers were doing their best to make their meaning clear and persuasive. I don't think they would have seen the point of hiding their meaning, and I suspect any hidden meaning found is one made up by the reader.
In practice, the neoconservative notion of American exceptionalism amounts to an assertion of national greatness. In policy terms, the neoconservative idea seems to be that America can lick any man in the house, and should fight anyone who looks at us funny. Their American exceptionalism amounts to nothing more than Amerika über alles, hardly a slogan for a democratic country.
More on rethinking liberalism
Rethinking liberal theory 1: Thomas Hobbes, blasphemer and patriot
Rethinking liberal theory 2: The outlaw John Locke, terrorist, liberal, and advocate of freedom
Rethinking liberal theory 3: A compact to protect property, or a conspiracy to create meaning?
Rethinking Liberal Theory 4: John Milton and the many shapes of truth
Rethinking Liberal Theory 5: Adam Smith, moral philosopher of the marketplace
Rethinking Liberal Theory 6: Mythmaking and manufacturing
Rethinking liberal theory 7: Hegel, the end of history, and the triumph of the liberal idea
Rethinking liberal theory 8: Liberalism and individualism: The invention of the Util and the way west
Rethinking liberal theory 9 Property and freedom: Why language is the basis for the social contract
Rethinking Liberal theory 10: Physiocrats & mercantilists: The economic philosophies of the founding fathers
Rethinking Liberal Theory 11:
Stateless income, global capital, and the death of empires
Rethinking Liberal Theory 12:Capitalism:So much more than market
Rethinking liberalism 13: What is money?
Rethinking Liberalism 14: Tribalism and the emerging new world order
Rethinking liberalism 15: The poverty of neoconservative philosophy
Rethinking Liberalism 16: More on the poverty of neoconservative philosophy
On reading young adult fiction
by John MacBeath Watkins
In the immortal words of John Rogers, "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. "
piece by Ruth Graham titled
Against YA
suggests that "...Adults
feel embarrassed about reading literature written for children."
I'm sorry, (he said, with icy politeness,) but Young Adult fiction is a marketing category, not the mark of Cane. Belonging to that category does not mean a book is badly written or emotionally unsophisticated.
Moby Dick
was published as a kids' adventure story, as was
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Atlas Shrugged
was published as a novel of ideas aimed at adults. But which of these has the greater emotional and moral depth?
The truth is, you can't judge a book by its cover, but you can tell from its cover what the publisher thought its audience was. The thing is, publishers are seldom right. Quite a few rejected
Animal Farm
, one of them saying, "it is impossible to sell animal stories in the United States."
Robert Pirsig sent Zen and the
Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
to 121 publishers before the 122nd bought it. If publishers understood their audience, they would have known this would be a best seller, but in truth, no one understands the reading public well enough to be certain which books will sell best, or which will be regarded as classics a century later.
In addition, most adult fiction has no particular claim to literary merit. Should people be ashamed of reading westerns, or mysteries, or fantasy novels? Why single out young adult fiction for the sneer? People don't read porn for the character development or the sophisticated prose, but those books are unquestionably aimed at adults. Should we feel shame any time we are reading something that a creative writing professor would give a B grade to? Are we to outsource our tastes and our choices to people with pretensions as arbiters of taste who may, in the end, miss the mark as badly as the 19th century pretenders who ignored
Moby Dick
How badly do the arbiters of taste miss the mark? Consider this rejection, with gratuitous misspelling of the author's name, of
The Bell Jar
This is an ill-conceived, poorly written novel, and we would be doing neither ourselves nor the late Miss Play any good service by offering it to the American public...I don't doubt that certain elements of the British press will puff the book nicely, but Mrs. Jones's original four-line report strikes me as the only honest and responsible critical reaction to the work.
Miss Jones, the other Knopf editor who read the manuscript, gave her initial response thus:
[1] Reject recommended
I'm not sure what Heinemann's sees in this first novel unless it is a kind of youthful American female brashnaess. But there certainly isn't enough genuine talent for us to take notice.
Since two editors at a major publishing house thought the book was crap, should we be ashamed of reading
The Bell Jar
? Yet it has entered the 20th century canon as a classic.
Is there recent YA fiction that will someday be regarded as classic literature? I couldn't tell you, because that decision will be made by readers yet unborn. Maybe Louis Sachar's
will be regarded as great literature one day, maybe it will be forgotten, as most books are. I do not arrogate to myself the power to dictate the appropriate taste of any other reader.
In fact, I think past efforts to do so have been destructive to literature. When academics came to wield great power over which poets are regarded as good, poetry lost its organic connection to a mass audience. Increasingly, literary fiction is written by professors of creative writing, in part because it is becoming more difficult for authors to support themselves on what they can make. Is this a good thing, or will it enervate the novel the way this dynamic has enervated poetry?
I submit that the reason adults are attracted to YA fiction is precisely the fact that the arbiters of taste don't control it, the audience does. When I read Annie Proulx, I get a good read, but I also get some prose that seems very written, very much intended to bring attention to the cleverness of the author. My preference is for authors who don't let the words get in the way, who let me look right at the story without demanding attention for themselves.
Heart of Darkness
isn't a great book because it has memorable sentences, it's a great book because the sentences disappear and leave you facing Kurtz. It's a great book because once you've read it, the book becomes a part of you, and changes who you are.
And it's a great book because generations of readers felt the same as I do on reading it. The formation of a canon does not depend on the utterances of experts, it depends upon a consensus formed by many readers over a long period of time.
Take the example of
The Lord of the Rings
. It came out at a time when critics preferred the then-fashionable style of social realism. But J.R.R. Tolkien wasn't writing some pale imitation of
The Grapes of Wrath
, he was writing an epic, something no one else was doing. It took a couple generations for critics to take it seriously, but if I had to name a book I was certain people would still be reading in a hundred years, the ring trilogy (originally intended to be one book) would be my choice.
Yet, had I followed the advice of Ruth Graham's
piece, I would have been ashamed to read it. It was written as a sequel to
The Hobbit
, which was very definitely a kids' book. It even won an award for "best juvenile fiction" from the New York Herald Tribune in 1937.
All of our poetic posts
I've labeled as many of the posts I can find that are poetry or about poetry with a poetry tag, so you can find them all in one place.
Just click on the above link, and they will present themselves.
Deep thought on Elliot Rodger
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Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book read by Marvin Miller
First published in 1962, Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book tells the story of a small yet contagious yawn which spreads spreads from bedroom to bedroom across the world until zillions of Seussian creatures (such as the Foona Lagoona Baboona, the Chippendale Mupp, and the Krandles) are all soundly fast asleep. Our recording was released on Camden Records in 1966. It is "dramatized" by Marvin Miller with Marty Gold and His Orchestra. If his voice sounds familiar, it's because Miller is famous for narrating another Seuss tale, Gerald McBoing-Boing, and Disney's Sleeping Beauty. He has also lent his vocal talents to the characters Robby the Robot, Aquaman, Zarn, Deux Deux, and appeared on many shows including the Millionaire, Wonder Woman, Perry Mason, and Space Patrol.
Dreaming of Sleep by Todd Melby
Roughnecks and other oil field workers make big money. But that money doesn't come without sacrifice. Many workers are separated from their families. The job can be dangerous. And the long hours can mess up a person's life. Todd Melby of the Black Gold Boom oil series reports on one worker whose days sometimes turn into weeks.
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ARLINGTON — The Arlington Courts Volleyball Club held a sand volleyball tournament Saturday to raise money for Nina Cherry and her family. She's the mother who was carjacked and run over while waiting to pick up her kids from school at Pantego Christian Academy last month.
Competitors paid $30 each to play, with every cent going directly to Cherry's family.
"We consider our club a family, and we had a family member injured that we had to help out, so we decided to run this tournament to benefit them," said club owner Mike Siska.
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A Mahoningtown man is wanted in connection with an attempted robbery on the city's South Side.
New Castle police have charged Scott Matthew Haley, 31, of 405 W. Cherry St. in connection with the offense after he was picked out of a photo lineup.
The victim told police he had been sitting on his porch on Grimes Street around 7:45 p.m. Sunday and a man named Scott visited him, saying the man owed him money. He responded he didn't owe him money, but the man reached for his pocket and tore his pants, he told police.
The man also told officers his attacker had grabbed him around the neck and tried to choke him, adding he had trouble breathing while the man searched his pockets. He said he broke free and ran before the man could take anything from him.
He called the police from a local business, he added.
Police said Haley is charged with criminal attempt at robbery, criminal attempt at theft, criminal attempt at receiving stolen property, simple assault and harassment.
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MORAVIA — Charles DeWayne Moore, 84, of Moravia, died Oct. 2, 2013, at the Continental Care Center in Seymour.
Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Saturday at Lange Funeral Home in Moravia; Pastor John Van Weelden officiating. Interment will follow in the Crossroads Cemetery in Plano.
Visitation was held Friday at Lange Funeral Home in Moravia.
In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established to Moravia High School Booster Club or American Diabetes Association and may be given to Lange Funeral Home and Crematory, 1900 S. 18th St., Centerville, Iowa, 52544.
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MotorStorm series to "dominate", says Evolution Studios
Jed Ashworth, Gameplay Manager for MotorStorm developer Evolution Studios, has declared that the company has set its sights on dominating reaction racing for "a long time." Speaking to Eurogamer on the future of the MotorStorm series, Ashworth stated, "We have the aim of turning ...
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New MotorStorm tracks set for US update
Looks like we'll be heading back to the festival, as two new MotorStorm tracks are being released in tomorrow's US update. They've already been released in Europe as of last week, but now it's America's turn. Diamondback Speedway is like the unofficial NASCAR track of MotorStorm, except it'...
- Posted Jan 16th 2008
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Two new MotorStorm tracks coming to UK owners
Tired of driving around the same tracks over and over when playing a game of MotorStorm? Don't sweat it; they're bringing two new tracks your way. This Thursday, January 10th, all UK owners will be privileged with the opportunity to download two new tracks for the adrenaline-filled PS3 r...
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MotorStorm gets v3.1 patch upgrade
Last month, MotorStorm received patch update, which included all-important DualShock 3 support. Now Evolution Studios, the brains behind MotorStorm is releasing the 3.1 patch upgrade. While it is not as big as the Devil's Weekend patch the new update will include mirrored tracks and 2D veh...
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MotorStorm Devil's Weekend patch
Today, November 8, the developers of MotorStorm will be releasing a new 3.0 patch along with the new Devil's Weekend DLC available through the PSN store. The Update 3.0 patch will feature the following: - Support for DualShock 3 with adjustable sensitivity settings - Sensitivity sett...
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MotorStorm 3.0 ready to rumble
MotorStorm's next patch has just been released on the PlayStation Network, and yes, it includes rumble support. If you wish to update your version of the game, simply head online in MotorStorm and you'll be prompted to begin downloading patch v3.0. The full list of changes: * Added vibration...
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MotorStorm 2.0 patch available for download
The latest update to MotorStorm not only prepares players for the MotorStorm Revenge Weekend PSN download pack that will be available very soon, but also brings a huge lists of improvements we've detailed below. For starters, the patch focuses on "Vehicle Select enhancement"– your...
- Posted Sep 4th 2007
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New MotorStorm track dated
The new MotorStorm track, Coyote Revenge, is scheduled to be available for download on PlayStation Store on Thursday September 7th. Coyote Revenge is the original Coyote track but in reverse, and is accompanied by two new vehicles. The first vehicle will be available for download September 13 and th...
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MotorStorm v1.2 update delayed once again
The upcoming MotorStorm v1.2 update is arriving a little more than fashionably late. Originally planned to release on June 7th, the update promises multiple small fixes with the addition of a free Time Attack mode. "Technical issues" were cited for the original delay to the 11th. It w...
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MotorStorm online multiplayer coming to Japan!
Today Sony Computer Entertainment announced that they will release some MotorStorm online content in Japan. The first downloadable package will be released on June 20th. It will include online multiplayer and the time attack mode. The download will weigh in at 542MB and it will be free of charge...
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Being head of Sire Records, which turns 45 in 2011, I was responsible for all artists, and as hard as it was not to show favoritism, for the most part I succeeded. It was hardest with the Ramones, partly because soon after I signed them their manager Danny Fields asked my wife Linda to be his partner. It was harder still because I admired the band's total dedication to their music, despite the fact that selling millions of records eluded them throughout their career.
With Linda as their co-manager, the Ramones knew my every move. One Sunday within 10 minutes of returning from a 10-day trip to London, I received a call from Johnny. "Seymour, we got some great songs, ya know, we want you to hear 'em, ya know."
I said, "Great, just got home. Come in anytime you want on Tuesday."
"No, we want you to hear 'em live, ya know, and we know you're not doing anything Wednesday night, ya know, so we booked ourselves into CBGBs."
That evening proved monumental. The opening act was supposed to be the Shirts. I had seen them many times before and was standing outside the club with Lenny Kaye.
The opening act goes on and I hear a screeching voice: "When my love, stands next to your love…" and all of a sudden as I'm sucked into CBGBs, I say, "That's not the Shirts." Lenny says, "No, they got another gig, that's the Talking Heads."
Armed with the Ramones and Talking Heads, amid the buzz building around the Bowery and CBGB, Sire finally got the distribution deal I always wanted with Warner Bros. Records, where we have been for the past 35 years.
Thank you Johnny. Oh yes, and thank you Joey, thank you Tommy, and thank you Dee Dee.
Over the years I can't tell you how many artists were lured to Sire by the Ramones, and yes, also Talking Heads.
The Ramones made it seem easy and as such were an inspiration to bands as varied as U2, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, Pearl Jam, the Offspring, Motörhead, Metallica, the Undertones, the Strokes, Bad Religion, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Sonic Youth, Bad Brains, and many others.
I remember when we first brought the Ramones to London back in 1976. Members of the Clash and Sex Pistols, both only semiprofessional at the time, attended the second show and it was said both bands turned pro right after that.
According to Danny Fields, Johnny Ramone asked the Clash's bass player Paul Simonon, "Are you in a band?" Paul said, "Well, we just rehearse. We call ourselves the Clash, but we are not good enough." Johnny said, "Wait 'til you see us. We stink, we're lousy, we can't play. Just get out there and do it."
Joey Ramone had the biggest heart ever and was always trying to help new acts. Last time we spoke, two weeks before he died, Joey called to tell me he had just sent a new band's CD.
Bono once said at a Madison Square Garden gig, "We love New York City…New York City has given us a lot of things, but the best thing it ever gave us was a punk rock group called the Ramones, without whom a lot of people would have never gotten started; certainly us!"
Eddie Vedder might have set a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame record by speaking for more than 20 minutes when he inducted the Ramones back in 2002. "The Ramones didn't need Mohawks to be punk. They're visually aggressive. They were four working-class, construction-worker delinquents from Forest Hills, Queens, who were armed with two-minute songs that they rattled off like machine-gun fire. And it was enough to change the Earth's revolution."
I've been to Beijing twice this past year to check out China's emerging punk music scene. There is a club called D-22, reminiscent of CBGB, and aspiring young bands like Carsick Cars, P.K. 14 and Rustic are carrying on the tradition, further proof the Ramones' music is truly global and will endure forever.
(As founder of Sire Records, Seymour Stein signed the Ramones, Talking Heads, Pretenders, Madonna — all of whom have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — Depeche Mode, Echo And The Bunnymen, Ice-T, the Replacements, the Smiths, k.d. lang, Erasure, the Cult, the Cure, Seal, the Undertones, and Barenaked Ladies, among many others, to the label. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.)
The Lifetime Achievement Award, established in 1962, is presented by vote of The Recording Academy's National Trustees to performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording. To view a complete list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here.
Lifetime Achievement Award: Julie Andrews, Roy Haynes, Juilliard String Quartet, The Kingston Trio, Dolly Parton, George Beverly Shea
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks finished little changed Friday, but with the Dow Jones Industrial Average halting a four-week losing streak, as Wall Street's attention shifted from developments related to Syria to the impact of the jobs report on U.S. monetary policy.
Halting its longest winning streak since the middle of July, the Dow Jones Industrial Average /quotes/zigman/627449/realtime DJIA -0.31% ended the session off 14.98 points, or 0.1%, at 14,922.50.
Up 0.8% from last Friday's close, the benchmark had risen 52 points in opening trade and then fallen as many as 148 points, before recovering midmorning and rising as much as 72 points during the afternoon.
"We've got Syria, the G-20, so we've got a lot going on. I think you saw money go off the table ahead of the jobs report, you may see some more of that, with investors not wanting to have big bets one way or the other going into the weekend," said Chris Gaffney, senior investment strategist at EverBank Wealth Management.
Reports indicating intensified rhetoric between Russia and the United States on Syria's use of chemical gas sent stocks skidding in early trade. Stocks were hit as Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly said his nation already supplies Syria with aid and weapons and will continue to do so if Syria is attacked.
Stock losses were gradually erased as President Barack Obama reiterated that the U.S. response would be "limited and proportional" to the attack in suburban Damascus last month that killed more than 1,400, including at least 400 children. Obama spoke from St. Petersburg, where he attended the G-20 summit.
"The market is getting more comfortable with Syria," given the political assurances that any strike will be strategic with no American forces on the ground, said Gaffney. He added: "We could see a spike in oil prices and gold heading up on worries there, and a selloff in emerging markets and people going into Treasuries."
Tallying a weekly gain of 1.4%, the S&P 500 index /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX -0.21% held steady at 1,655.17, with utilities pacing sector gains and consumer discretionary falling the most.
The Nasdaq Composite /quotes/zigman/12633936/realtime COMP -0.47% climbed 1.23 points to 3,660.01, leaving it 2% ahead for the week.
Stock-index futures had extended their gains, setting up stocks for a higher open, after a disappointing payrolls report shifted expectations of when the Federal Reserve could start to reduce its bond buys.
Ahead of the open, the Labor Department report ed the economy added 169,000 jobs in August, short of forecasts, while cutting the prior month's estimate. The unemployment rate fell to 7.3% from 7.4% as fewer people looked for work.
Investors now think there's a "chance that the Fed does not pull money off the table in the next meeting," said Gaffney. "Most of the market believed it was going to be a $10 billion cut in the bond-buying efforts later this month. I think investors still think that, but are starting to hedge their bets."
While the market generally holds the view that the Federal Open Marketing Committee would begin curbing its monetary support at its next gathering on Sept. 17-18, Gaffney believes there's a good possibility such a move would not come until December.
Fed Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans on Friday said the central bank should not cut back on its $85 billion in monthly asset purchases until economic growth and inflation pick up speed.


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I specialize in Russian economics and demographics.
I know it's a bit outside my wheelhouse, but the spectacle of John Derbyshire's dismissal is too interesting and too politically significant for me to refrain from commenting.
In one of the more stunning instances of a pundit's self-immolation that you will ever see, John Derbyshire has been fired from National Review. His firing comes after he wrote an article for the somewhat more downmarket and excitable Taki's Magazine that was so cartoonishly and petulantly racist that it is hard not to view its publication as part of a deliberate attempt to force his exit from older and more august of the two publications (I'm not trying to be snide or dismissive, I don't particularly care for either NR or for Taki's Mag, but I don't think it's particularly controversial to note that NR editorial standards are, objectively speaking, somewhat more exacting).
It utterly baffles me how, in this day and age, anyone, even the most obtuse or egotistical, could possibly think that you would not be put out to pasture for authoring such a humorless, ill-informed, poorly written, and sophomoric screed about the mortal peril that white and Asian children face from African Americans. Plenty of other conservative authors have "gone there" on topics related to race: National Review's editor Rich Lowry recently wrote an editorial about the Trayvon Martin killing and then followed it up with a blog post bemoaning the fact he had been labeled a bigot for speaking out. Other conservative authors, such as Andrew Sullivan and Derbyshire himself in days past, have even repeatedly treaded on the extremely fraught and contentious grounds of innate racial differences in intelligence. No, what made Derbyshire's piece so unusual, and what resulted in his summary dismissal, was not the fact that it dealt with race but that it did so in a uniquely bullheaded and crass way: it wasn't a racist dog whistle so much as it was an out-of-tune racist marching band.
Quite a lot of digital ink has already been spilled on the topic, and many of the most outrageous quotes have already made their way out into the ether via Twitter, but what I thought was Derbyshire's single most inexcusable statement is one that hasn't figured prominently in any of the enraged denunciations I have stumbled upon. As sub-rule (g) of rule number 10, an generalized exhortation for people to "use statistical common sense," Derbyshire said the following:
Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white.
This is as baldly racist a statement as is possible to imagine, despite another National Review columnist's feeble protestations that "there are no such things any more as overtly recognized racial smears." Derbyshire is literally suggesting that people use one, exacting and demanding, standard when judging the acceptability of black politicians and that they use another, far less exacting, standard when judging white politicians. That is we should use different, and racially-determined, standards to judge the behavior of blacks and whites. That is, basically, the dictionary definition of racism or as least close to it as you're ever likely to see in print. This statement, far more than any of Derbyshire's arguments about the inadvisability of acting like a good Samaritan to a black person in "apparent distress" or the desirability of avoiding amusement parks with large concentrations of blacks, was what really stood out as demented and perverse because it wasn't even sugar-coated with a patina of "fact" but was just naked and totally undisguised bigotry.
What is really important about this episode though is not that it demonstrates that conservatives have a tough time talking about race. That has been pretty obvious for a very long time now and I'm quite sure, years from now, some other conservative opinion writer will be canned after publishing a particularly ill-advised screed. No, what gives Derbyshire's martyrdom much broader political relevance and significance is the light it casts on a large and growing divide within the conservative movement between the self-appointed elite and the base.
This is a complicated divide that has all shorts of overtones, particularly those related to class and educational attainment, but at a very basic level it is about branding. Those in the leadership positions, like Lowry, understand that, to be effective in 21st century America, conservatism absolutely cannot afford to appear hateful, backwards, provincial, and reactionary: it would be too politically toxic and destructive. Specifically related to race, there must be a constant refrains of "equal opportunity for all" and any expressions of outright bigotry have to be swiftly condemned and punished to mitigate their political cost. This is a worldview which, broadly speaking, understands that American society has changed and that open racism is no longer acceptable. Those on the other side of the elite-mass divide, tend to regard the main problem with the conservative movement as its constant appeasement and cowardice: they think that people like Derbyshire aren't being hateful and stupid but are instead speaking bold and inconvenient truths that those in power would rather ignore. These people are angry beyond belief that fearless writers like Derbyshire are being unfairly marginalized by "wimps" like Rich Lowry (one of the most constant insults you will see hurled at establishment conservatives is "girly man") and regard any attempts to police conservative discourse as revolting attempts to "appease" liberals.**
I am far from the only person to notice the increasingly yawning divide between professional conservative functionaries and the flock they purport to lead, and I am certainly not attempting to portray myself as uniquely clairvoyant or perspicacious for doing so. Indeed if you go and look through actual conservative blogs it is virtually impossible to miss the wave of righteous indignation, often bordering on blind rage, that has been stirred up by Derbyshire's dismissal and the supposedly cowardly and obsequious way it was handled by National Review (heck, I'm not a conservative and even I got yelled at by a couple of random people on Twitter). If you have a strong stomach and a relatively well-developed immunity to illogic I would strongly advise that you examine, for example, the over 2500(!) comments that Derbyshire's piece attracted, the comments that were left on National Review,* the comments on Steve Sailer's blog, the comments on Robert Stacey McCain's blog, and, to a lesser extent, the comments on this Dan Riehl piece and even a few of the comments left on the Village Voice post to which I linked earlier.
Just so that I am perfectly clear the content of these comments is not remotely interesting (they are sterling examples of people making the bog-standard mistake of mistaking "colorful anecdotes" with "persuasive data") but their sheer number, and the extent to which they greatly outweigh the number of comments which expressed approval over Derbyshire's dismissal, does seem to be worthy of note. There is, of course, a certain amount of self-selection going on, trolls always come out of the woodwork during such episodes, but I think it's pretty apparent that there is a genuine disconnect between conservative leaders and the led and that this anger is very close to boiling over.
Despite the appearance of uniformity, the conservative movement is riven with myriad tensions and internal contradictions. The disagreement over how to handle matters of race is one of the more contentious issues, but is hardly unique in this regard (immigration is probably the worst, but gay marriage is not far behind). The leaders of the movement have, truth be told, done an absolutely masterful job papering over these tensions and enforcing discipline, but I think the system is in the midst of a slow-motion collapse. Thanks to the magic of social media, it becomes ever more difficult to effectively banish non-conformists and ever harder to present a united front. This is the real importance of the Derbyshire affair, and something that is worth remembering far after the media circus has died down.
Lastly, on a more personal note, it only seems fair to note that John Derbyshire is in the midst of a battle against cancer and that it would be not just churlish but barbaric to take any sort of pleasure in his dismissal. I think the man's views in this instance were appalling, but he deserves no small bit of sympathy for what he is going through. Everyone ought to remember that before celebrating
* Lowry wisely decided to close comments on the actual notice of Derbyshire's dismissal
** I am not (let me repeat not) arguing that the conservative base is uniformly racist. Far from it. But the conservative base does have a much higher tolerance for harsh rhetoric provided that that rhetoric comes from other conservatives. This "us versus them" mentality is very much a basic part of human psychology, but does seem to be particularly well developed among contemporary American conservatives who will countenance almost any sort of conduct provided the person is part of their team.
Mark Adomanis is easily the most idiotic writer I have ever come across on the web and that is saying a lot. Every single word is wrong, but at least he's consistent.
He is typical of the brainless young liberal PC crowd who just stamps their feet and knows you should agree with them.
What is the source of their intelligence? Well they've read their "facts" in books and heard their professor's say them so they must be right, right?
All we have here is another self-righteous clown trying to show the world how good and pure he is by mouthing the pre-approved screeds he learned in school.
Hello David,
Well said. Though Mark is not a Liberal. He is a socialist, or hopeful merciless dictator, pretending to be a Liberal. He admires all things Russian, especially their methods for dealing with deviant thinkers. Such beliefs put him at odds with freedom loving peoples everywhere.
I doubt that Mark Adomanis has ever been the victim of a serious crime. He embodies what George Orwell called "money sheltered ignorance." In order to understand what blacks are really like one needs to interact with them on terms of approximate equality in an environment where they are in the clear majority. Only then will one realize that most of them are not like Sidney Poitier.
I hope he is never nearly murdered by black ghetto thugs like I have been, but it would be an eye opening experience.
"They are sterling examples of people making the bog-standard mistake of mistaking "colorful anecdotes" with persuasive data"
This would be a nice point if it were true. Unfortunately, there is really no debating that there exists persuasive data showing higher rates of violent and non-violent crime in black demographics. You can easily argue that differential crime rates do not warrant Derbyshire's "advice", but you can't claim these differences are merely a matter of anecdotes coupled with naive statistical inference.
But the conservative base does have a much higher tolerance for harsh rhetoric provided that that rhetoric comes from other conservatives. … WHAT? you have got to be kidding me on this..Democrats and Liberals turn a blind eye to racist tantrums set off by jackson, sharpton and the like…the south was democrat during the worst years of racism..recent black on white mob attacks go mostly ignored by the MSM..Robert Byrd was a KKK big wig, Bobby Kennedy spied on MLK, cartoonist caricatures of Condeleza … it amazes how things are so one sided .. really dig a bit deeper..
I admire Jews and East Asians. Hostility toward them angers me and almost makes me feel physically sick. Nevertheless, I would never advocate that anyone condemning them be fired. Hit pieces on those people are easy to refute. They have lower rates of crime and illegitimacy, and higher average IQs than white Gentiles.
The same cannot be said of blacks. This is why on racial issues liberals, who claim to support free expression, don't when opinions that anger them are expressed.
I suspect that many liberals would have liked to prevent the publication of The Bell Curve.
There are a number of things in play there. One, which I've written about more than once, I think, in the United States, is just despair. I am of a certain age, and I was around 50 years ago. I was reading the newspapers and following world events and I remember the civil rights movement. I was in England, but we followed it. I remember it, I remember what we felt about it, and what people were writing about it. It was full of hope. The idea in everyone's mind was that if we strike down these unjust laws and we outlaw all this discrimination, then we'll be whole. Then America will be made whole. After an intermediate period of a few years, who knows, maybe 20 years, with a hand up from things like affirmative action, black America will just merge into the general population and the whole thing will just go away. That's what everybody believed. Everybody thought that. And it didn't happen.
Here we are, we're 50 years later, and we've still got these tremendous disparities in crime rates, educational attainment, and so on. And I think, although they're still mouthing the platitudes, Americans in their hearts feel a kind of cold despair about it.
- Interview with John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire's column would have better, and more difficult to dismiss, if he had begun by describing actual cases of black on white crime, such as flash mobs, and the knockout game.
In a flash mob a large group of black youths enter a convenience story and begin to shop lift everything they want, sure that those working at the store will be too intimidated to to stop them. In the knockout game a gang of black males will attack a non white without provocation and try to knock him out.
Rather than tell his son to avoid a large group of blacks, John Derbyshire should describe actual cases of when a white person entered such a group and was beaten, robbed, and perhaps killed.
John Derbyshire should have asserted, and documented his assertion, that whites are far more likely to be victims of black violence than are blacks to be victims of white violence, even the violence of the police.
John Derbyshire would still have been called a racist, as are those who mention black crime, black illegitimacy, and the race gap in academic performance – which does not seem to have been reduced by No Child Left Behind, but the National Review would have been less likely to fire him.
Adomanis certainly seems to have piled together enough nasty pejoratives describing John Derbyshire, though he hasn't made much of a case proving that they apply. Everything Derbyshire said, while perhaps unmentionable in polite company, is perfectly true.
It's an established fact that the average IQ of black Africans is markedly lower than that of any other major racial group. Their incidence of crime, both violent and non-violent, is also much greater than that of any other major racial group. Their propensity for eventually destroying any neighborhood in which they live is practically universal. Obviously, these dismal realities do not include all blacks, and one of the great tragedies born of these harsh realities is that those blacks who do strive and achieve well above the average are embarrassed and often even judged by the conduct of at least a large minority of their fellows.
Are conservatives like Adomanis so afraid of being lumped with the KKK that they attack their own merely for expressing what even the most ardent liberal knows, deep down, to be true?


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Prius Safety & Crash Test Ratings
Not exactly. What I am trying to say is that there is always a weak point in every car. Like "the chain is only as strong as it's weakest link" thingy. Something can go wrong with almost everything.
There have been cases of GM large SUVs catching fire ( electrical ) when parked overnight.
And maybe, just MAYBE the Prius has an occasional problem with catching fire.
Some 1.5M have been sold worldwide, but few have caught fire.
The old Pontiac sports coupe ( Fiero ) with the mid-engine ( behind the driver ) had a bad habit of catching fire because the valve cover gaskets leaked oil on the exhaust manifolds. Hence a fire.
GM recalled some 1.5M for engine oil fires ( 1997-2003 ).
If it is built by humans, it can break. Period.
BUT not ALL will break. Only some.
gagrice San DiegoPosts: 28,852I am not familiar with anybody having a Prius fire in their garage.
That is exactly what was posted. A Prius exploding and burning inside a garage.
On Sunday July 26 2009 at 2am my 2005 prius (fully loaded model) caught fire in the garage. The neighbors said that they heard 2 explosions (probably batteries blowing up from heat) and then the garage burst into flames. The prius, the garage and my wife's car were all totally destroyed. The firemen all said that in their opinion the genesis of the fire was with the prius. They said that fire was under the prius and surrounding the engine. We left the car in the garage at 9pm Saturday night, and saw the garage at 11:45 pm before going to sleep. Nothing about the garage looked disturbed or unusual. Is Toyota going to make this right?
that is exactlly happened to my friends 2005 prius on march 28th 2007 He lost everything he got out with his pants and shirt and that is all he lost his house there was nothing left to it.. it has been confirmed that it was the prius that caused the fire ,started by the battery, so it does happen and his was not the first one. in doing some research. there have been more. you will have to sue toyota as they will not make it right
OKay, OKAY! So it does seem that some Priui have caught fire.
But now, it seems that the ones I have read about are the ones that have been "modified" by NOT Toyota.
Some have now Lithium-Ion batteries, instead of the factory Nickel Metal Hydride.
AND they may be the "PLUG-IN" Hybrids we have all heard of, but not seen.
An aftermarket company modifies these cars to be plug-ins, and the batteries are different.
NOW! Are any of the Priui that are burning NOT these modified cars???
Are FACTORY cars burning??? Or are they modified Priui that are catching fire?
Let's solve this mystery once and for all!
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