Monthly Archives: February 2012

In the ultra-respectable Economist of February 25, 2012 appears this essay entitled “Financial Infrastructure: Of plumbing and promises, the back office moves center stage.” Quite a mouthful! But have no fear, as I said, this is the staid house organ … Continue reading →

Here is some well timed, politically useful, hypocrisy from the pen of Ross Douthat. What better way to distract voters in this time of the battle between misogynist, theocrats and jingos, that is the Republican Party of 2012, than with … Continue reading →

David Brooks is reeling from the effects of his colleagues reporting on the Radical Individualist’s in our midst. It seems that something like 28% of Americans live alone and half the births in America in women under thirty are out … Continue reading →

Here is Niall Ferguson in the magazine Foreign Policy, the prestigious voice of American Establishment thinking, in an essay entitled We’re All State Capitalists Now. Mr. Ferguson or the editors have a way with this outworn cliché, it speaks of … Continue reading →

David Brooks http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/opinion/brooks-the-jeremy-lin-problem.html?… “The odds are that Lin will never figure it out because the two moral universes are not reconcilable. Our best teacher on these matters is Joseph Soloveitchik, the great Jewish theologian. In his essays “The Lonely Man … Continue reading →

Jeremy Lin is an NBA player who, at present, is having phenomenal success and is a person of deep religious faith. In his desperation to manufacture his latest column, Mr. Brooks takes Mr. Lin as his subject of a very … Continue reading →

Here is proof that women in America no longer have to postpone their wish for children until marriage. Here, also, is proof that David Brooks’ obsession with out of wedlock births as a sign of American decadence is not about … Continue reading →

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/nov/06/usa.politics1Here is what Isaiah Berlin celebrated as a man being clubable, in it's institutionalized form: our special relationship. You recall the paragraph in The Color of Truth by Kai Bird where Sir Isaiah celebrates the Bundy brothers as one of … Continue reading →

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For the past week I’ve been reading Pauline Kleingeld’s new book Kant and Cosmopolitanism:The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship published by Cambridge University Press. I measure a book by it’s first one hundred pages, so I have spent the last … Continue reading →