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Michael Bailey “is prepared to use people in any way to show how cool he is,” said McCloskey (Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2011)

March 6th, 2011

Revisiting Bailey Story in Chicago Tribune, 3 March 2011. McCloskey: “he aims for shock over substance.” The Bailey Controversy Hey, Northwestern U: How About Starting With His Fraudulent Transsexual ‘Research’?, ENDAblog, 3 March 2011 Controversial NU sex researcher back in hot water, Gay Chicago Magazine, 4 March 2011. McCloskey: “Bailey enjoys that shock value that (more…)

Chapter 8 of The Bourgeois Revaluation:
Yet on the Whole the Bourgeoisies Have Been Precarious

March 6th, 2011

So the bourgeoisie is always with us. Yet bourgeoisies have usually been precarious. Braudel again chronicled the reluctant triumph of a business civilization: “as the years passed, the demands and pressures of everyday life [in Europe in early modern times] became more urgent. . . . So with a bad grace, it allowed change to (more…)


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