December 29, 2008 • 4:23 pm
Good God.
In their letter to Obama, the “Feminist Historians for a New New Deal” start with a good and valid point:
“avoid the discriminatory components of Franklin Roosevelt’s programs in designing a stimulus package to address the current economic crisis”
While Roosevelt’s programs were discriminatory and arbitrary (and it is a good sign that these feminists recognized the same tendencies in Obama), the Fem-historians’ letter takes a turn for the worse:
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Filed under: Economy/Economics, Politics
December 26, 2008 • 10:23 pm
When revenge roused radicals, spiteful socialists seeking Schadenfreude, malice motivated Marxists, and acrimonious anarchists cause chaos and act eccentrically, eventually one of those “talking truth to power,” persistently irritating “imperialists,” will wish he hadn’t abandoned Athens’ safe, suburban Palio Psychiko.
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Filed under: Crime, Hellenic Republic , Anarchy, Greece
December 24, 2008 • 9:05 pm
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December 13, 2008 • 9:27 pm
Aristotle says in his Nicomachean Ethics (IV.2. 1122a29):
“[T]he magnificent man is liberal, but the liberal man is not necessarily magnificent.”
Filed under: Quote of The Day
December 12, 2008 • 11:01 pm
Here’s a clip of the Canadian TV show The Agenda with Steve Paikin. The topic of this discussion revolves around FDR’s “New Deal,” the common “mythology” pertaining to FDR, the New Deal, and the Great Depression, and some of the new research that is more disinterested and less enchanted by the wanna-be hero, FDR.
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Filed under: Economy/Economics, History, T.V.
December 9, 2008 • 6:12 pm
400 years ago the author John Milton was born in London. I don’t know much about the author of Paradise Lost and have not read much of his work. But, if I ever have the time (and I remember this post), I’ll stop by the Milton Reading Room and poke around at some of the links. If there’s anything sillier than celebrating a birthday (an event which necessarily must have occurred to each and every human being), it’s celebrating the birthday of a dead man. Happy B-day, John.
Filed under: Education, History, Literature
December 8, 2008 • 12:23 am
Filed under: Art/Lit, Media, T.V.
December 5, 2008 • 2:55 pm
GMU’s HNN, astonishingly, has a post on Israel and environs that is not radically biased in favor of the commonly accepted Arab rendition of the events surrounding the birth of the country now known as Israel.
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Filed under: Education, History
December 3, 2008 • 7:41 pm
Slavoj Zizek is an idiot who is commonly discussed in Post-Modern philosophy courses. He’s gained the acceptance of the international Left and, therefore, I am forced to sit amongst confused souls who take him seriously. I’m speaking solely of his… ehem… “philosophical and psychological “thought”" and, until a few minutes ago, I was unaware of his politics.
Here are some excerpts from a review of his work:
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Filed under: Education, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Terrorism , Slavoj Zizek
December 1, 2008 • 7:56 pm
The NYT Sunday Book Review has reviewed Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. Here’s Gladwell on The Colbert Report basically summing up his book:
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Filed under: Economy/Economics, Philosophy , Either/Or, Gladwell, Heidegger, Homer, Kierkegaard, Outliers
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