Subject: How MLK’s Murderer Was Caught | The Tiger Mom and Me |
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Date: 1/17/11, 15:14 |
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Welcome to The Faster Times update. In today's edition, we bring you an MLK, Tiger Mom, political animosity, Indian tiger moms, and the future of the Internet. Enjoy! |
AMERICAN BIOGRAPHIESHow MLK’s Murderer Was CaughtTo call James Earl Ray a murderer is not to trivialize the man he murdered. It personalizes the political just as surely as assassin, politicizes the personal. And just because it takes two asses to spell the word doesn’t mean it takes two to comprise its meaning. One is more than enough, even if that one possesses a political philosophy no more evolved than that of Jeremy Loughner. Ray’s ideological vision didn’t go an inch beyond redneck racism, wisdom received like genetic coding from his family. To call James Early Ray a murderer does not trivialize the man he murdered, but it refuses the dignify the man who did the murdering.. |
GROWN UP KIDSThe Tiger Mom and MeIf you read, blog, watch television, or listen to the radio, it was practically impossible to avoid Amy Chua this week. Chua is the Yale law professor whose newly released book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, has caused a firestorm in the media and, I suspect, at the dinner table. |
POLITICAL ANALYSISConservative Anger and Liberal CondescensionThe vitriol that liberals and conservatives perceive in each other is only the symptom of a larger cause. There is something rooted in the two ideologies that generates anger and condescension respectively, and that is why a simple call by the President for participants to be more civil will find few adherents. |
INDIAN CULTURETiger Mama? More like Tiger SocietyAside from espousing these harsh child-raising methods as fundamental to later success, Chua’s provocative article also contains a self-assured recrimination of American parenting ideals. But while her methods are undoubtedly extreme, ‘legally actionable,’ as she admits, are the values she espouses truly out of the ordinary? |
STARTUPSWhat Will the Internet Change Next?People love to focus on horse races: NYC vs Silcon Valley, Facebook vs Twitter, IPO markets vs private exchanges, the valuation of some startup vs some other startup. Like a lot of people in the tech industry, I’ve gotten inquiries recently on the meaning of Facebook’s “private” IPO with Goldman Sachs, whether VC valuations are indicative of a bubble, whether such-and-such startup is overvalued, and so on. These questions are all footnotes that will be forgotten in a few years. |
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