By: swallerstein
Scott: Here’s an online version of Diderot: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700101h.html If you have a copy of Foucault’s History of Madness, he talks about Rameau’s Nephew quite a bit. No, I’ve...
View ArticleBy: Scott Preston
Corey... I'm still re-reading in <i>The Reactionary Mind</i>, and I thank you for this, as it's a good book that has contributed much to my understanding of the reactionary mentality....
View ArticleBy: Seth Edenbaum
“The ancients sought virtue, a life of excellence lived in and through the polis; the moderns (Machiavelli, Descartes, Bacon, Hobbes, and Locke) perpetrate ‘a lowering of aims.’ ” True enough....
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That’s no necessary defense of Levin. I’m reading the piece now. As far as Burke is concerned I wonder what he’d say of Levin’s opinion as the colonization of Palestine. And the AEI’s definition of...
View ArticleBy: Steve White
This is nonsense. What Brooks is really saying when you chop out the fluff is to leave your health care in the warm and understanding hands of an insurance company. Let the insurance company make the...
View ArticleBy: Seth Edenbaum
“In an essay published in early 1879 called ‘The True Reason of Man’s Happiness’, al-Afghani denounced British claims to have civilized India by introducing such benefits of modernist as railways,...
View ArticleBy: Donna Gratehouse (@DonnaDiva)
“Read that last paragraph carefully: “We liberal citizens are often up to it.” Why? Because we live in “families, which after all are not liberal institutions.” It’s the family, by which Levin means...
View ArticleBy: Seth Edenbaum
“So basically Dad is forced to decide if Grandma lives or dies.” That would be the case even in a state with care from cradle to grave. care. A woman chooses to have an abortion. A family decides when...
View ArticleBy: Theo
Would you be the same Scott Preston who was active on the No Logo list back in the days of neoliberal millenarianism? (Very interesting discussion btw)
View ArticleBy: Theo
As far as I can see, Levin is mouthing high-minded guff. I want socialized healthcare so my disabled daughter can get life-saving medical treatment when she needs it (this has already been necessary on...
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