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Update & Repost-Kenneth Minogue At The New Criterion: ‘The Self-Interested...
Full essay here. Thanks to a reader for the link. Deep but very readable. How universal is the desire for individual freedom?: ‘Some people take the view that we in the West are fortunate to enjoy...
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Two Links On The Conservation Of Liberty
This blog sometimes acts as a bit of a dumping ground, a curio-shelf of ideas on the conservation of liberty. Keep sending those links by tweet, email, or the comments section: No postmodern, nihilist...
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Compstat For Prosecutors? Hipsters Late To The Game? How Far Will Utilitarian...
Heather MacDonald at the City Journal-‘Prosecution Gets Smart:’ The police, and now prosecutors, are responding to available data and new strategies that respond to that data. MacDonald: ‘The...
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Repost-Ed West At The Telegraph: ‘Conservatives, Depressing Everyone Since...
Full piece here. Briton Ed West is leaving the Telegraph and offers some thoughts: ‘Conservatism is depressive realism. That’s not to say that things are always bad, or necessarily getting worse, but...
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You Can Be Anything You Want-A Few Sunday Links
From this piece here as previously posted, lots of food for thought, including mention of Samuel Huntington and Francis Fukuyama: ‘ And isn’t the great foreign-policy debate of our time—whether America...
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Two Quotations From Keeping The Tablets
Referring to this book: “Rationalism in politics means, in Oakeshott’s challenging phrase, making politics as the crow flies, i.e. ideologically. Hayek, a student of the great Austrian economist...
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Some Links-Oil In L.A., British Conservatism And Possibly Independent Scotland
Maybe you didn’t know L.A. is a big oil-town?: From the Atlantic Photo-‘The Urban Oil Fields Of Los Angeles‘ Some of those oil derricks have been thoughtfully hidden… As to thematic exposition and...
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Repost-Politics Here, Politics There, Politics Everywhere?-From The Hoover...
Video included at the link. Celebrated American playwright David Mamet underwent a conversion to conservatism in rather dramatic and public fashion a few years ago. In leaving his liberal views...
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Robert Tracinski At The Federalist: ‘Neil DeGrasse Tyson & The Metaphysical...
Full piece here. Explainers and popularizers often run into the problem of hubris; what they know of their limited fields is limited (even and especially if it is physics). They can often be pressed to...
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Timothy Fuller At The New Criterion: ‘The Compensations Of Michael Oakeshott’
Piece here (subscription required) ‘I sat down to read the Introduction and, reading it straight through, found it to be such an exciting intellectual experience that it was a spur to my embryonic...
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Theodore Dalrymple, Moral Authority, and You’ve Got A Special Delivery From...
How do you preserve and conserve many laws and traditions and institutions likely worth preserving and conserving, and the authority necessary to maintain them with perhaps many people less connected...
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Update And Repost: Via Youtube-Uncommon Knowledge With Fouad Ajami And...
————————- I’d like to see how this has held up: A quote from Hill’s forward to Ajami’s new book on Syria as discussed in the video: “[The] greatest strategic challenge of the twenty-first century is...
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Kevin Williamson At The National Review: ‘Whose Liberalism?’
Link sent-in by a reader: Original review in The Nation: ‘Before the 1930s, histories of liberalism told a different story. In his excellent Liberalism: The Life of an Idea, the journalist Edmund...
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Repost-A Few Thoughts On NPR And Current Liberal Establishment Thinking Under...
Progressive Convention, 1912. Moffett Studio & Kaufmann, Weimer & Fabry Co. Prints & Photograph Division, Library Of Congress LC-USZ62-116075 —————- Current liberal establishment thinking...
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In The Mail-Yuval Levin: The Framers As Anticipating The Technocratic Mind &...
Via the Federalist: Yuval Levin discusses his book The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and the Birth Of Left And Right. ======================= Some of the questions coming at Levin during the...
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Repost-William F. Buckley And Kenneth Minogue Discuss Ideology
——————– I’m well aware that any schlub can post a Youtube video on a WordPress site, but it’s still timely. The discussion hinges on the idea of whether or not you and I are already free, and whether...
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Repost-A Few Thoughts On Robert Bork’s “Slouching Towards Gomorrah”
Book here. Bork died as of December 19th, 2012. Bork argues that during the 1960’s, likely starting with the SDS, a form of liberalism took shape that promotes radical egalitarianism (social justice,...
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Repost-Roger Kimball At Arma Virumque: ‘Santayana On Liberalism And Other...
Full essay here. Worth a read: ‘My point is only that Santayana — the Spanish-born, Boston-bred, Harvard educated cosmopolite — stands out as an unusual specimen in the philosophical fraternity. He...
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Putin, Labour & Meta-Mod
What do you do when you’re an ex-KGB guy running a deeply corrupt, post-Soviet petro-State by stoking the flames of Russian nationalist identity to cement yourself and the country around your rule?...
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More Americans In Universities-To What End? A Few Links
Via the Future Of Capitalism, David Gelernter on what he sees having changed in American life: ‘Well, I think you saw these two processes just during the generation in which the Yale’s and Harvard’s...
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