Chomsky and Foucault

In my opinion, this is the greatest debate ever caught on film.  Between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault on Human Nature: Justice versus Power. Full transcript here. 

And here is a link-for-the-lazy!

Walden

All of Henry David Thoreau's Walden online!

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet Desperation."

Poem-worth-reading

My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light. 

Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920 

US poet (1892 - 1950)  

Poem-worth-reading

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

– Dylan Thomas

Presidential Speeches!

          I recently found this awesome link to the NY Times that gives an overview of every American President's Inaugural Speech. Definitely some fantastic rhetoric, and worth looking through.

Check out the link here:
Inaugural Addresses

Enjoy,

Austin