Monthly Archives: August 2011

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/28/9-11-s-10th-anniversary-the-death-of-neoconservatism.html After reading Mr. Beinart’s essay I found myself contemplating a question: who did he write this for? Is Neo-Conservatism dead, or can even an unsophisticated reader like myself draw certain conclusions, from other sources, that might just put his … Continue reading →

Here is Professor Rodgers stunning historical precis of the Mythology of the Market as idea, political,economic and legal practice, in our national life. The pernicious idea of the Market as metaphysical quantity,historical/political actor and household god is here treated to … Continue reading →

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5542.html I’m reading this in the morning and at bed time. I can’t read just one book. The confessions of a bibliophile, or just the result of my relentless intellectual ambition?

‘Like Adam Smith’s pin factory, these were metaphors all. The timeless, placeless,self-equilibrating register of individual preferences that was now more and more often being called “the market” was an abstraction , as complex and intricately manipulatable a figure of speech … Continue reading →

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=30906   My current reading is Age of Fracture by Daniel T. Rodgers. I’m facing the challenge of self-doubt as a reader. I’m swimming against a rough tide of my own ignorance, although Professor Rodgers writing is fluent and it’s … Continue reading →

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8358.html Are you weary of the literary critic who draws his inspiration, indeed, his reason d’être from the laboratory, as if literature were a specimen, to be dissected using the instruments of  a science that creates itself, as it proceeds … Continue reading →

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/08/the-major-roadblock-to-muslim-assimilation-in-europe/243769/ In reply to Mr. Shadi Hamid’s Atlantic article: Here is an excerpt from a December 17,2009 New York Review of Books article by Mr. Malise Ruthven entitled The Big Muslim Problem!: in it are reviewed Reflections on the Revolution … Continue reading →