over and over again.

In keeping with its tradition of disdainful middle-brow ressentiment against academic thinking, the New York Times has enlisted a (Stanley) Fish bowl view for its blogs features that intends to challenge “preconceived ideas about politics, education and society” entitled Think Again. While I welcome any rhetorical flourishes of this insouciant idiomatic expression, I deplore its programmatic implication, as if repetition could make a difference. Conversely, are we really back to thinking again? Mostly, though, these "challenges" amount to aggressively middle-of-the-road assertions of common sense. A useful corrective to the unconditional celebration of the wisdom of crowds in this respect can be found in an article exploring Digital Maoism, with the Times already reporting on 'net mobs in China.

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