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Journal Production: A Video Clip From Duke U. Press

May 19, 2011, 12:50 pm

By PageView Editor

Like other university presses, Duke has used video clips to promote books and authors. It has also used clips to spotlight press practices. New to YouTube this week is “Behind the Covers: The Making of a Journal at Duke University Press.”

The occasion was the recent redesign of The South Atlantic Quarterly. The five-minute clip documents the production process for SAQ’s Winter 2011 special issue, “Theory Now.” Duke’s previous behind-the-scenes video came from the book division and featured editor in chief Ken Wissoker discussing acquisitions at the press.

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  • http://whytheology.wordpress.com/ Trey Medley

    I’m certainly not a defender of Rep. Ryan (quite frankly I abhor Randian Objectivism), but it is interesting that this was a question of the fact he spent $700 on wine at the same restaurant Ms. Feinberg was dining (and she apparently knew enough about expensive wine to identify it). My question is, where is the line drawn? Clearly purchasing a Buaggatti Veyron on a whim is too far (the car costs more than double most people’s homes), but is dining out at a nice restaurant taboo? What about movies? What about McDonalds, particular when there are people around the world (scratch that, people in the US) who could scarcely afford such a luxury. Are we relegated to all eat Ramen Noodles until the population is fed, clothed, housed, and has access to adequate medical care? Where do we draw this line? It seems somewhat arbitrary. If Ryan hadn’t been proposing massive budget cuts to social programs, would he then be allowed his personal $700 wine tab? What if he personally gave away half his income? Would he be allowed a $350 wine tab then? Again, I can’t stand Ryan’s politics, and some of his statements lead to question him as a person (but as I don’t know him, I must stop myself). While I would never drop $700 on wine with friends (at least I don’t think I would, I’ve never been financially secure to consider such a thing), I don’t know if I necesarily begrudge him that.

  • hanks

    I agree. Let the waiters and waitresses crawl around on the floor and and pick up loose change that falls out of politicians pockets. “Are there not prisons for the poor?”

  • pontificator

    I think the most important thing to be gleened from this tempest in a teapot or wine bottle, is the fact that the Chairman of the House Finance Committee initially got the arithmetic wrong on his credit card receipt. Of course, he UNDERESTIMATED the total!

  • meshabob

    So how come an associate prof. at a public university is living so high on the hog, hmmm?

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    Because she was celebrating her birthday? Everybody knows that for Ryan, this was just another night out on the town. For that matter, an $80 bottle of wine at a fancy restaurant is considered mid-range. This is not so much, btw, about spending $350 on a bottle of wine. It is much more about people like Ryan attacking SS, Medicare and Medicaid. If the Republicans were not so openly Marie Antoinette in their politics, people like the prof would not be so angry and willing to confront them.

  • panthernation

    Funny that is the salary we pay Rand is considered “his own,” but the money a student pays to a university for tuition is seemingly not considered their own. IOKIYAR

  • panthernation

    Apparently, you didn’t understand Feinberg’s argument. Thanks!

  • lucapacioli

    Cwinton, would another example be Al Gore flying around in private jets to lectures to hector us that we should save fuel?   Or perhaps Rep. Rangel, lover of the poor, while chairing the committee that writes the nation’s tax laws, omits reporting rental income from his Dominican Republic villa?    

    In general, society is not in much danger when politicians are spending their own money.  It’s when they spend the public’s money that abuse, waste and corruption can take place on a grand scale.

  • jnwoye

    Ms Feinberg should be proud for having the courage to confront the congressman. The congressman’s action with the hedge fund cliques epitomizes hypocritical behavior of our politicians and how their relationship with business cliques tends to undermine our democracy.
    Really, spending $350 for a couple of hours with two people while aggressively working to devastate the lives of our most venerable old and young by attempting to cut them out from the little support they need to exist as humans while providing tax cuts for the billionaires and millionaire; that’s outrageous. The congressman should be ashamed of himself while Ms. Feinberg should be applauded for her courage to speak the truth to the powerful. We certainly need more people like Ms. Feinberg if we are serious about attacking our national problems that are mostly driven by greed.
     

  • ikswodnawel

    I do not sense here that reviewers see Congressman Ryan is simply a pontificator.  This is not a liberal or conservative issue but another politican who: “Do not do as I do, but do as I say!”  This fiscal congressman does not even know how much he was paid for his wine until questioned???  How about that 1st class seat flight ticket back to his district so he does not have to mix with his common constiuants. 
    I am sorry here but we have here another pompus politican who wants to make his mark and more personal millions on the government dole. He whines and walks out of meetings like a child instead of being an adult who must learn to compromise for the good of his district and the country. 
    We do not need anymore zealots in congress who are either liberal or conservative but americans who are open-minded to change for the greater good not for a hedge-fund manager who is trying to buy his vote. 

  • jimislew

    I mean no disrespect toward tenured professors here (in fact I have great respect for those who have nabbed an increasingly rare post, I’m a bit jealous), or politicians for that matter, but I love the dichotomy in this situation. A politician, whose survival depends upon public opinion is verbally attacked by a tenured professor whose own survival is utterly protected by the vicissitudes of the same.

  • wmartin46

    And what argument did I not understand? Thanks!

  • tgroleau

    “There is something tragic about powerful legislators consuming $700 of any quite discretionary product”

    Is it equally tragic that the Whitehouse served $400 bottles of wine at a state dinner in January? 

  • kozirice

    It is difficult to think of a hedge-fund manager as not a lobbyist, in fact if not in name.  And I agree that Mr Ryan probably had no thought of paying for wine and/or dinner until called out by Professor Feinberg.  I have no problem with Mr Ryan spending his own money anyway he wishes, including his public salary; however, I think his personal priorities do not mesh well with his priorities for the rest of us.

  • skolpan

    Far more troubling than the wine Ryan drinks is the company that Ryan keeps. Dinner with a “prominent hedge fund manager” is code (at least to me) for the caste of Ryan’s politics, and who supports his positions. If Ryan wants to blow a lot of money on wine, so be it, but the political context – a society for the wealthy and to hell with the poor and struggling – cannot be ignored. 

  • murdo004

    Did they?  How do you know? 

  • tgroleau

    This site says the wine was $250 a bottle: http://www.drvino.com/2011/01/19/state-dinner-menu-hu-jintao-quilceda-creek/  (note: this also shows a $50 wine on the menu)

    This site shows the wine at $400 a bottle: http://www.raederswine.com/sku056956.html

  • mxb22

    I’m on Ryan’s side here, but the argument that the production of luxury provides opportunity for the poor was probably made by Louis XVI too.

  • badger74

    Ridiculous. Waiting tables has probably kept more college students, single moms and future actors fed and housed than any other job in the US. The hours are flexible, the money very good per hour at the right place, and co-workers can be a blast.  When any work is beneath you,  you have the problem.

  • midtownlabgeek

    She “showed [her] courage” when “the manager and a waiter came over and Feinberg decided she had said her piece and it was time to leave”.  She “showed courage” when she crowed to a blog about her “confrontation” – selecting one that would applaud her, of course.
    “Courage” suggests that she expected to face disapproval (or worse) from those whose opinions matter to her, or those who are in a position to do her harm.  From the reactions here, she certainly doesn’t face the mass disapproval of the academy, and any potential backlash on her professional career will cause an outcry over “academic freedom”.

  • maw57

    You really don’t care how Ryan is spending his money? Burning it is really OK when he’s considering cutting support for the needy? The more general context for this is that most politicians at the national level these days *must* be wealthy in order to finance out-of-control campaign spending, a necessity created by the Supreme Court with the Citizens United decision. And of course that decision was made possible by George Bush, whose two terms permitted him to appoint so many rightist judges. (I have to give it to Bush: that was my biggest fear after his “re-election,” the power he would have over the court for years to come, and he managed to pack the court with some effective ideologues.) So yes, we have rich politicians (on the right and left) who are increasingly out of touch with the middle class, let along with those less fortunate, downing expensive bottles of wine without really grasping the effect of their policies on those who can’t live a similar lifestyle, even though Republican ideology persuades many income-strapped citizens that someday perhaps they will.

  • okieinexile

    This sort of finger-pointing at conspicuous consumption is a dangerous thing.  There are those who tar Ryan and Feinberg with the same brush and line them up against the same wall.

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