Harvey Weinstein and the Aims and Structure of Hollywood
Howl of the Day: Oct 13, 2017 Political scientist Corey Robin has an interesting take on the current Harvey Weinstein
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10, 2017
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11, 2016
Diogenes on Current Affairs
"It is folly to lament the passing of a man who made a career out of writing beautiful lamentations for his own eventual passing." -Dogenes, on the death of Leonard Cohen
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05, 2016
What Fascism Is Not, What It Is, and Why It Matters
Howl of the Day: May 31, 2016 Fascism, as a term, has become almost synonymous with injustice. And this common
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03, 2016
Sanders at Dearborn: A Socialist Love-Story
The idea that Bernie Sanders' support among Arabs and Muslims suggests there is little anti-Semitism in America is as absurd as the idea that there is no more racism in America, since it has elected a black president. Sanders is a democratic socialist, and socialism is one of the few Western political ideologies to have taken root in a big way in the Arab and Muslim world. This is a better explanation
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03, 2016
The Anti-Trumplodytes
Donald J. Trump is not like Hitler. It seems this can't be repeated often enough. It can't be repeated often enough because saying that Trump is like Hitler does two things: it denigrates the sacrifices and sufferings of millions upon millions of human beings, military and civilian, during the Second World War, and it promotes such laziness of thinking as to make even basic political understanding impossible to achieve.
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02, 2016
Medieval Heart, Postmodern Mind – Umberto Eco (1932-2016)
There is a riddle at the center of Eco's existence: In his theoretical work, he usually had the look of a post-modern man. And yet, in his art, he could look almost medieval.
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02, 2016
Scalia and the Rule of Law
"The law," wrote Aristotle in his Politics, "is reason unaffected by desire". Perhaps no recent justice of the American Supreme Court was as concerned with this idea as the late Antonin Scalia.
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02, 2016
Intuition Unintuited
Howl of the Day: Feb 17, 2016 Moral intuition is a strange thing. When faced with a moral dilemma we
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02, 2016
Socrates Made Tiny and Cute
Howl of the Day: Feb 16, 2016 The Second Letter attributed to the philosopher, Plato, contains the famous suggestion that
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02, 2016
Philosophy Wanders But Is It Lost?
Howl of the Day: Feb 9, 2016 In an impressive article in the New York Times, Robert Frogeman and Adam