tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post4959389632991592404..comments2024-03-28T06:07:03.667-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: ALTERNATIVE WORLDSRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-78157987382229554162015-08-23T12:00:08.945-04:002015-08-23T12:00:08.945-04:00I am very interested in your thoughts on the recen...I am very interested in your thoughts on the recent conflict between the Sander's campaign and some black activist groups. Today's Times characterised this as a difference between a race-based and class-based analysis of American society. As a Sanders fan, Marxist, and former head of an Afro-American studies department, you would seem to be uniquely well-placed to comment on this. What is your take? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714152856792139550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-42875981950920141782015-08-22T05:59:26.908-04:002015-08-22T05:59:26.908-04:00I think I would be simply awful at writing fiction...I think I would be simply awful at writing fiction. It seems to me that in order to write mfiction well, one must be able to give oneself up to one's characters and allow them to speak, as it were, omn their own, and I doubt that I could do that. I stand in awe of people who can write fiction, as I do of people who can create great art.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-23933360270043319402015-08-22T02:42:53.850-04:002015-08-22T02:42:53.850-04:00Have you ever, or ever considered, writing fiction...Have you ever, or ever considered, writing fiction? perhaps historical fiction, alla Gore Vidal?Jerry Fresiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17566575038825699112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-49465245440049621432015-08-21T15:01:47.604-04:002015-08-21T15:01:47.604-04:00I agree that she had no business wiping it, but wa...I agree that she had no business wiping it, but was it really no less secure than the State Department server?m Good grief.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-35627429282293048382015-08-21T12:41:25.125-04:002015-08-21T12:41:25.125-04:00I do not think that is really the problem. Her se...I do not think that is really the problem. Her server was not less secure than the State Department servers -- a scandal of its own, but for another day. When she used a private server for government business it stopped being her private server. She had no business wiping it or removing emails. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03296677552107805508noreply@blogger.com