tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post112023153907175393..comments2024-03-21T07:37:30.475-04:00Comments on Light reading: Interesting and true articleJenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-1120322479923532702005-07-02T12:41:00.000-04:002005-07-02T12:41:00.000-04:00Yeah, patronage is here to stay. All we can do is...Yeah, patronage is here to stay. All we can do is make it (as it were) equal-opportunity patronage, and make sure it doesn't end up helping only a few people who are already very privileged as opposed to anyone who's willing to work. Of course, there are some understandable or even legitimate aspects to it as well. There's cronyism, and then there's having great respect for the work of your friends and trusting their judgment about people; also there are lines of intellectual affinity that mean that if I say "I'm a student of David Bromwich" it really does speak to something important about the intellectual choices I've made, my temperament and my affinities. Or whatever. Enough of this serious stuff, I have broken my "light reading" rule of not talking about work!Jenny Davidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.com