Monthly Archives: June 2013

Books of Interest: Saint Augustine of Hippo An Intellectual Biography by Miles Hollingworth

Posted on June 29, 2013 by stephenkmacksd
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Books of Interest: Irony on Occasion From Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man by Kevin Newmark

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On Scalia’s dissent on DOMA: Is this what self-serving legal hypocrisy, duplicity, mendacity look like? by Publius

Posted on June 29, 2013 by stephenkmacksd

“The Court is eager—hungry—to tell everyone its view of the legal question at the heart of this case. Standing in the way is an obstacle, a technicality of little interest to anyone but the people of We the People, who … Continue reading →

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Katzenbach, 383 U. S., at 328 and 329 etc. Opinion and Dissent

Posted on June 27, 2013 by stephenkmacksd

“Coverage today is based on decades-old data and eradicated practices. The formula captures States by reference to literacy tests and low voter registration and turnout in the 1960s and early 1970s. But such tests have been banned nationwide for over … Continue reading →

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Ethics and America’s Policy Intellectuals : Mr. Richard Haass by Philosophical Apprentice

Posted on June 18, 2013 by stephenkmacksd

While doing some research on the internet I came across this 2009 essay at The Daily Beast by Mr. Richard Haass titled Why I Didn’t Resign.  Here is the telling part of his argument: ‘People often ask me why I … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Cook, journalist on Facebook

Posted on June 14, 2013 by stephenkmacksd
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David Brooks Sternly Lectures Edward Snowden by Almost Marx

Posted on June 11, 2013 by stephenkmacksd

Does this sound familiar: ‘The Solitary Leaker‘, The Social Misfit,’the atomization of society, the loosening of social bonds’? The shotgun wedding of Psychoanalysis and Pop Sociology finds a home in the mind, the ‘thought’ of David Brooks?

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The Quality of Dissent

Posted on June 10, 2013 by stephenkmacksd
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Current Reading: The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt by Gopal Balakrishnan

Posted on June 9, 2013 by stephenkmacksd

“The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political thought. In the English-speaking world, he is terra incognita, a name associated with Nazism, the author of a largely … Continue reading →

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Books of Interest: The Literary Kierkegaard by Eric Ziolkowski

Posted on June 8, 2013 by stephenkmacksd

‘Eric Ziolkowski’s monumental study examines Kierkegaard’s “whole ‘prolix literature,’” including both the pseudonymous and the signed published writings as well as the private journals, papers, and letters, in relation to works by five literary giants from different times and places: … Continue reading →

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