Monthly Archives: October 2017

My Sunday reading, Philosophical Apprentice

  https://books.google.com/books?id=zWNQKbi9uiQC&q=page+129#v=onepage&q=page%20129&f=false Chapter 5 Heidegger and Modern Philosophy: Critical Essays edited by Michael Murray Chapter 9 : The Task of Hermeneutics by Paul Ricoeur,  page 141 https://books.google.com/books/about/Heidegger_and_Modern_Philosophy.html?id=KpAVAAAACAAJ Philosophical Apprentice    

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Anne Applebaum on ‘A New European Narrative?’ American Writer comments on her ‘reviews’

The reader doesn’t have to read to far into Ann Applebaum’s latest essay, in the New York Review of Books, titled  A New European Narrative? of October 12, 2017, a review of six books about Europe, to find this diagnosis … Continue reading

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At The Financial Times: Martin Wolf attacks Jeremy Corbyn. Committed Observer comments

Consider three key paragraphs in Mr. Wolf’s Anti-Corbyn polemic: The leader of the UK Labour party has already had a disastrous economic impact, by making the Brexit referendum result far more likely. He cannot just say, as he did in … Continue reading

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At The Financial Times: John Plender warns against Quantitative Easing, Almost Marx scoffs!

Mr. Plender’s blend of ersatz economic technobabble and kitsch will find its advocates/enthusiasts here at The Financial Times. Yet his chatter can lead to only one conclusion for the Free Marketeer. At the same time the build-up of debt means … Continue reading

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At the London Review of Books: August Kleinzahler on Hugh Hefner, as perpetually obnoxious, leering 14 year old!

Mr Kleinzahler’s dismissal of Mr. Hefner reeks of disdain, yet he was, as semitone has indicated, not quite consistent in his application of that emotion. Some of Mr Kleinzahler’s readers are old enough to recall an old television show done … Continue reading

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