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	statements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I found Judith Shulevitz's "Sing Muses or Maybe Not" an enraging and appalling piece both for her to have written and for the Book Review Section to have run.
		It seems to me that Shulevitz is peeved at her own lack of power in relation to live poets reading and so she richly takes her comfort where she can--on the end page of the Times Book Review.
		I mean, this is the ultimate lowbrow-posing-as-highbrow piece-one is treated to Shulevitz dragging in bits from Orwell's "Poetry and the Microphone" to support her point.
	www.eileenmyles.com /statements1.html (832 words)

	When Writers Attack
		Shulevitz, on the other hand, quotes the briefest fragment of the DeLillo passage to subtantiate her view that Myers "misinterprets" it; she says what she thinks "DeLillo seems to be saying" in it; she provides none of the kind of textual analysis that Myers does to support herself.
		After all, this is the same Judith Shulevitz who, as a columnist for Slate, attacked none other than Lee Siegel for giving a harsh review to (or, in Shulevitz's words, "taking a hatchet to") novelist Kurt Andersen.
		Lord knows, the very trajectory of Shulevitz's career (scroll down) might be proof enough of that — she didn't, as it turns out, get to write for the most powerful newspaper in the world due to her reporting skills.
	www.mobylives.com /When_Writers_Attack.html (679 words)

	Matthew Feeney on Judith Shulevitz & Canon on National Review Online
		As evidence that Shulevitz is dealing with an imaginary position, or at least a composite of the least-compatible parts of the most inane arguments, she warns us away from "the falsely coherent narrative of intellectual progress" that "canon warriors" supposedly purvey.
		But by this point Shulevitz is already into her second paragraph about the "canon warriors," and the straw man she's constructing is beginning to fall apart without her even having to poke at it.
		Shulevitz is worth quoting at length here, because she provides a shimmering example of the way in which mainstream literary liberals, who themselves evince a fairly traditional appreciation of aesthetic and intellectual rigor, distance themselves from conservatives — with whom they largely agree — through a rhetoric of political hygiene.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-feeney052802.asp (1386 words)

	Crosswalk.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Judith Shulevitz wants to know why conservative churches are strong and growing.
		Nevertheless, the main thrust of her argument is that conservative churches draw strength from the very strictness of their beliefs and practices, whereas more liberal groups dissipate through lowered rates of involvement and diminished truth claims.
		Judith Shulevitz suggests that liberal denominations should look to this body of research and modify themselves so that their members will find deeper meaning and connection.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/weblogs/Mohler/1331027.html?view=print (1252 words)

	Jonathon Delacour: The librarian's kiss of death
		Dorothea, I believe that Shulevitz is making the point that the kinds of books that librarians and city officials select are those least likely to improve the reader in the way that you mention.
		I don't read Shulevitz to be saying that fiction doesn't make the individual better, merely less productive and functional as a 'citizen', ie reading instead of doing the 'necessary' work at hand, be it housework, politics, soldiering, what have you.
		To Shulevitz (and I agree), collective reading is a poor enterprise in state (or city) building, because individuals reading and interpreting individually undercuts the necessary political fiction of a unifying myth.
	weblog.delacour.net /archives/000485.html (1433 words)

	So Dover Is Supposed to Be Our Fault?: BLOG: SciAm Observations
		My problem is with Shulevitz's pronouncement (which I assume is also Ruse's) that "the notion that evolution equals progress still runs through many evolutionary theorists' works and public statements, giving them, at times, a curiously spiritual feel." She then follows this with a series of statements that don't stand up to two seconds of scrutiny.
		Shulevitz and Ruse can go on about "evolutionism" if they like, but the kinds of claims they find troubling have nothing to do with what would be taught in public school science classes.
		Whether Shulevitz and Ruse would want this to be the case, their arguments help the creationists distract the public from the real issues.
	blog.sciam.com /index.php?p=124&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 (1521 words)

	Evolutionblog: Replying to Shulevitz
		I never got around to blogging about Judith Shulevitz's review, for The New York Times, of Eugenie Scott's book Evolution and Creationism, and Michael Ruse's The Evolution-Creation Struggle.
		Judith Shulevitz's essay (“When Cosmologies Collide,” Jan. 22) contends that scientists often do not acknowledge the broader social implications of “evolutionism,” the mélange of often conflicting philosophical conclusions that have been drawn by disparate people from the very idea that life has evolved.
		It is this evolutionism, she says, that continues to inspire much of the resistance to evolution.
	evolutionblog.blogspot.com /2006/02/replying-to-shulevitz.html (517 words)

	GEORGE, JFK, JR.'S MAGAZINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Shulevitz criticizes the magazine for its conflation of politics and popular culture and its ultimate pointlessness.
		Shulevitz argues that politics remain distinct from entertainment/pop culture: "entertainment and politics are fundamentally asymptotic, no matter how much they appear to converge." (p.
		The issue raised by Shulevitz, however, has interest whether or not it applies to the magazine.
	webpages.ursinus.edu /rrichter/jfkjrtwo.html (149 words)

	George II, Part 1
		They often turn up in unlikely places, like a recent piece by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times book review of January 26th that deals with a new initiative to put "great books" in the hands of U.S. military personnel.
		Shulevitz concurs with these criticisms, observing that "seeking out the new and the challenging is not part of the public relations agenda today."
		Thankfully, literature can be a double-edged sword when used for propaganda purposes, as Shulevitz notes, describing the relevance of Shakespeare's "Henry V" to the current political situation.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/0130-09.htm (940 words)

	STATEMENT OF PROFESSOR KEVIN MACDONALD, 31 janvier 2000
		Shulevitz: "For thousands of years, he says [actually, since the beginning of the Diaspora -- about 2000 years], Jews have separated themselves from their neighbors, choosing to confine themselves to a closed society with strict rules against marrying outside the group.
		Shulevitz concludes her review by stating that "it is the job of a scholarly association not just to foster discussion but also to police the boundaries of its discipline.
		Whatever Shulevitz may think of my work, I hope all HBES members and academics in general will agree that we are better sticking with peer review than being policed by Shulevitz or anyone else.
	www.vho.org /aaargh/fran/polpen/dirving/kmd000131.html (13509 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		JUDITH SHULEVITZ, "THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW": Well, this is mortifying, but it's also "Moby Dick." I actually did get through it when I was 35, but I -- I've been trying since I was about 18, or at least since "Zelig" came out.
		SHULEVITZ: No, but you know, there's always enough buzz about a book that you sort of get a sense -- there's -- for example, this week there's, I think, articles in every major newsweekly about how Adams is up and Jefferson is down.
		SHULEVITZ: I was just going to say I do think that when you have someone who's -- who's -- who's sort of a target, a commercial success, the reviewers kind of take aim.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0107/05/gal.00.html (3747 words)

	Gene Expression: Shulevitz on Human Accomplishment
		Shulevitz seems to find amusement in Murray's confirmation of his list at "face value," that it does tend to correlate well with that we'd have expected.
		The thing I liked about Murray's list and method is that people might argue qualitatively that for instance the German contribution to the arts and sciences took off after 1750.
		A quantitative analysis allows us to comb the methodology and is more immune (though not totally so) to the tendency to cherry pick to buttress your thesis.
	www.gnxp.com /MT2/archives/001418.html (217 words)

	Crunchy Con: Sex ed in America - Rod Dreher, Conservative blog, Beliefnet conservative politics and religion blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Reviewer Judith Shulevitz says that the message of Kristen Luker's book is: the research shows that it doesn't matter what educators do or say, teenagers are going to do what they want to do anyway.
		According to Shulevitz, Luker doesn't believe that the intense arguments over sex ed in schools are silly.
		By the way, Ross Douthat read the same review, and he says that one thing the Luker bottom line definitely suggests is the "intellectual bankruptcy" of the view that the way to make abortion more rare is to do extensive sexual education in the schools.
	www.beliefnet.com /blogs/crunchycon/2006/08/sex-ed-in-america.html (810 words)

	GreenBooks.TheOneRing.net™ \| Turgon's Bookshelf \| Responses to Critical Errancies
		After the posting of my rebuttal (Critical Errancies) to Judith Shulevitz’s "Hobbits in Hollywood" piece, I received a deluge of interesting emails, many of them long and well-considered, a few tart, and all of them supportive of Tolkien.
		Shulevitz personally, I would guess that she douches with a lemon.
		Clearly Shulevitz measures Tolkien against those whom (as you so aptly put) she puts in the "Box" of "Literature" and obviously chooses to put it outside that box.
	greenbooks.theonering.net /turgon/files/050101.html (1987 words)

	GreenBooks.TheOneRing.net™ \| Turgon's Bookshelf \| Critical Errancies
		But on the whole, the piece is a conglomeration of irrelevancies, mixed with selective half-truths, and it is clearly the result of a disordered mind.
		Shulevitz makes it sound like Tolkien, whom she patronizingly qualifies as "a conservative Roman Catholic" and "the tweediest and most persnickety of Oxford philologists," set out on a mission to preserve the fourteenth century status quo, at least as regards literature.
		Shulevitz, and others of her ilk, want to draw lines around literature, saying what’s inside this box (that we like) is literature, and it is good, but what’s outside this box (Tolkien included), is not.
	greenbooks.theonering.net /turgon/files/042101.html (650 words)

	Tooby on Slate
		Note 4: Judith, if evolutionary psychologist just meant "psychologist" + "evolution" then as an anthropologist I wouldn't qualify as one, nor would the biologist Randy Thornhill or the anthropologist Craig Palmer, both of whom you identified as evolutionary psychologists in your recent discussion of their work.
		Judith, I think you give "ignoring" altogether too short a shrift with your claim that "vigorous discussion" is always better.
		Since Judith and Alex have taken one of my objections to constitute all of them, I should state that the problems with MacDonald's books are far more numerous than their dependence on biologically unrealistic types of group selection.
	www.psych.ucsb.edu /research/cep/slatedialog.html (9551 words)

	there is no spoon
		Shulevitz uses it to suggest the positive promise many techno-utopianists (I might be making up that word) claim for the web.
		To her credit, Shulevitz goes on to provide the best summary I've seen of blogging's addictive appeal.
		All the blog posts about how much time blogging takes (like this one at Nonsense Verse) are testaments to the accuracy of Shulevitz's description.
	radio.weblogs.com /0101221/categories/myOrganization/2002/05/06.html (710 words)

	Perfect Madness: Reviews & Media Coverage
		Judith Warners Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety brims with both...
		Judith Warner blows the lid off American mothers' dirty little secret: that despite our allegedly limitless choices and our best efforts to create the good life for our children, we're not happy...
		When Judith Warner returned to Washington after several years of living in France, she felt she was a pretty good mother to her two young daughters.
	www.perfectmadness.net /media.html (632 words)

	Liberty Corner
		Judith Shulevitz, writing in The New York Times, reviews Judith Warner's Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety:
		The first is that, in affluent America, mothering has gone from an art to a cult, with devotees driving themselves to ever more baroque extremes to appease the goddess of perfect motherhood.
		Shulevitz almost gets it right, then she blows it by throwing the problems of parenthood -- which is a choice made by individuals -- back into the lap of "society." Yes, working outside the home can be more immediately gratifying (both intellectually and financially) than facing up to the responsibilities of parenthood.
	libertycorner.blogspot.com /2005/02/feminist-balderdash.html (1021 words)

	Judith Shulevitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Judith Anne Shulevitz is a writer on religion and literature whose articles have appeared in the New York Times and the on-line Slate magazine.
		She has been heavily involved in the controversy over the work of the psychologist Kevin B. MacDonald.
		A listing of Judith Shulevitz's articles at Slate
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Judith_Shulevitz (137 words)

	Microsoft Announces Slate as Name of New Online Publication Headed by Michael Kinsley
		Shulevitz, the New York editor of Slate, most recently was a columnist for New York magazine and before that was the magazine's deputy editor.
		Shulevitz began her editing career at Lingua Franca, a magazine about academic and intellectual life.
		Shulevitz is also a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review.
	www.microsoft.com /presspass/press/1996/apr96/kinslypr.mspx (512 words)

	Burningbird » Tapping Fingers
		In her article, Shulevitz argues that …literature does not make us or our society better as a refutation of the premise behind the program.
		Society is a mob on the perpetual edge of riot and anarchy saved only by laws enacted to ensure the survival of the maximum number of those most compliant.
		The participation that formed in Jonathon’s comments related to the Shulevitz article is an example of such a group.
	weblog.burningbird.net /2002/05/21/tapping-fingers (1197 words)

	Luther Seminary - Resource Details
		Judith Shulevitz, writing in The New York Times, observed that
		In her articulate call to savor the Sabbath, Shulevitz suggested that, Judith Shulevitz, confesses in a recent New York Times Magazine article (3/2/03) that every weekend she used to sink into a dark, unresponsive, and morose mood, which turned out to be a disorder of suffering from the lack of a sabbath.
		In "Bring Back the Sabbath," Shulevitz comments that "the one day in seven dedicated to rest by divine command, has become the holiday Americans are most likely never to take." We Americans "no longer cherish obedience as a virtue" (especially to divine commands).
	www.luthersem.edu /stewardship/resource_detail.asp?resource_id=633&pf=y (167 words)

	Independent Women's Forum
		But what jumps out at you in Judith Shulevitz’s treatment of the issue in Sunday’s New York Times is the chillingly status-driven character of life among America’s blue state meritocrats.
		Shulevitz is reviewing Judith Warner’s new "Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety.
		Judith Shulevitz is by all accounts a nice person, but the world she portrays is not.
	www.iwf.org /inkwell/default.asp?archiveID=1115 (10625 words)

	Perfect Solution to Perfect Madness? -- Daddy Types
		In her review of Judith Warner's book, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety, Judith Shulevitz tells the crazies to take a time out.
		I'd seen the Warner article in Newsweek at the doctor's office during the 12 month check-up and read just enough to be confused -- the premise seemed rational but the arguments seemed stupid.
		Judith Shulevitz apparently has more braincells available to make a cogent argument.
	daddytypes.com /2005/02/21/perfect_solution_to_perfect_madness.php (326 words)

	village voice > news > The Kinsley Report by David Yaffe
		Former Slate culture editor and current Culturebox columnist Judith Shulevitz found that online attention spans weren't equal to the patience of readers at Lingua Franca, where she'd been an editor before arriving at Slate.
		Shulevitz says Kinsley asked her to reinvent the magazine's arts coverage, emphasizing interactive exchanges over extended explications.
		Shulevitz's exchange with Brent Staples on Roth's new novel, The Human Stain, demonstrated the kind of vibrant debates a book of such monumental importance should produce.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0027/yaffe.shtml (1211 words)

	Judith Shulevitz, Nicholas Lemann - New York Times
		Judith Anne Shulevitz and Nicholas Lemann, writers in New York, are to be married today by Rabbi Marion R. Shulevitz, the bride's mother, at the University Club in New York.
		Her mother and father, William P. Shulevitz, live in New York.
		Her mother, the rabbi at the Amsterdam Nursing Home, directs the hospice chaplaincy of the New York Board of Rabbis.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E0DA1E3BF934A35752C1A96F958260 (181 words)

	McDDONALD's final comment (16 Feb. 2000)
		Shulevitz claims that I am "evolutionary psychology's anti-Semite" and Tooby demurs only because he claims I am not an evolutionary psychologist.
		The charge of anti-Semitism is a serious one because of the long and tragic history of the Jews and because the reverberations of that history permeate contemporary life.
		The comments of another outsider, Judith Shulevitz, also show that these exclusionary tactics give the impression that evolutionary psychology is less a science than a cult: "First, I think you're being even more devious than you say.
	www.vho.org /aaargh/fran/polpen/dirving/kmd000216.html (5684 words)

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