Monthly Archives: November 2011

Dearest Tina, This morning I opened my e mail from the Daily Beast to find two essays, one by Peter Beinart and one by Leslie Gelb. Mr. Beinart’s contribution is titled Obama’s Foreign Policy Doctrine Finally Emerges With ‘Offshore Balancing’. … Continue reading →

October 19,2011 I’ve just read a review from Philosophical Investigations of October 1993 by Mary Midgley of Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. I received an e mail from Wiley-Blackwell with free access to a selection of their … Continue reading →

The comic potential of The Great Will(TGW) is not wasted, here, as he fulminates about the virtue-less posturing of Newt Gingrich,sounding all those Calvinist notes of the inherently sinfulness of man, as located in that egregious perennial candidate. In quick … Continue reading →

I was not acquainted with the name of Matthew Continetti until I listened to Left,Right and Center on Friday November 18,2011 where he was the substitute Right Wing thinker. He seemed a bit supercilious,a bit too taken with himself, in … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/opinion/brooks-lets-all-feel-superior.html?… One can read Mr. Brooks latest essay as proof, if one were needed, that the myopic Mr. Brooks has a perceptual problem. There was no ambiguity in the report of one of his assistant coaches that he witnessed the … Continue reading →

American Capitalism in the 18th Century was about the trade in slaves, tobacco and molasses, to foreshorten the actuality. We have progressed, but the feudal mentality of the 18th Century entrepreneur remains a constant in the present age of the … Continue reading →

Mr. Jones writes an interesting essay, yet he confines himself to strategic questions alone, like the good policy intellectual, who seeks to avoid the ethical question of a protracted bombing campaign, against a country that is engaged in nothing that … Continue reading →

I found this article from Foreign Affairs in a tweet by Glenn Greenwald , a thank you to him. What is very fascinating about this opinion piece is that, for being so brief, it has three people credited with it’s … Continue reading →

Should the zygote be granted the status of a person? This is the burning question of our present age, while millions of human beings,once zygotes themselves, go hungry, have no shelter and whose futures are, by any measure, utterly bleak. … Continue reading →