Monthly Archives: October 2011

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-15802-2/hermeneutic-communism  

I had read this book some years ago, but was recently reminded of it by two essays published in The New York Review of Books by Professor Crews, titled Physician Neal Thyself. I have provide a link to the Review’s … Continue reading →

Just read about this book in the October 7, 2011 issue of the TLS, in an essay by Marya Schechtman titled Nature of me. http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item2702902/?site_locale=en_US

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/14/hillary-clinton-speech-to-economic-club-of-new-york-a-brilliant-moment.html Here is Leslie H. Gelb adopting the rhetorical guise of the outsider to the Washington insiders who make and endlessly argue about Foreign Policy, intellectuals dedicated to the American Interest. He is one of those insiders, who receive calls … Continue reading →

http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/History/17thC/?vi… I keep going back to this old friend, when I have questions, and when I want to renew that friendship in pursuit of my intellectual quests. Intellectual Quixote

Any attempt to ‘clean’ the private park, now in the hands of dissidents,will be a predictable end that will make real the power of a corrupt Capitalism. This is a reading that fully follows the mass media lead of handycapping … Continue reading →

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/10/13/us.occupy.wall.street/  

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/10/201110121715573693.html?… “No one ever lost money betting on the dull predictability of the US government. Just as Occupy Wall Street is firing imaginations all across the spectrum – piercing the noxious revolving door between government and casino capitalism – Washington … Continue reading →

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-15162-7/the-truth-about-girls-and-boys  

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/96062/occupy-wall-street-zizek-lewis?passthru=NWJhNDIyNzAzNmU5MWExYzI1ZmM0ZGU0MDJiZTU2MTk&utm_source=Editors+and+Bloggers&utm_campaign=4e29fdf4cc-Edit_and_Blogs&utm_medium=email The New Republic makes clear that respectable Liberals will find no common cause with the anti-capitalist rhetoric and group think of Occupy Wall Street(OWS): for after all Liberals believe in Capitalism as key to the survival of their philosophy, … Continue reading →