Monthly Archives: February 2021

This political Melodrama begins with David Brooks in the New York Times of January 28, 2021: Headline: Children Need to Be Back in School Tomorrow Sub-headline: Teacher resistance is a disaster for the most vulnerable. There’s a wave of anti-intellectualism sweeping … Continue reading →

I’ve just finished rereading, the Kant chapter titled ‘Kant’s Critique of Idealism‘,  In  ‘German Idealism:The Struggle against Subjectivism 1781–1801 by Frederick C. Beiser. It took some time, but well worth it.  I’ve started to reread ‘Prolegomena to any further metaphysics … Continue reading →

War-Monger & ‘The Bell Curve’ advocate/apologist Andrew Sullivan attacks The New York Times  & Dan-el Padilla Peralta for attacking the ‘The Classics’! Headline: He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? Sub-headline: Dan-el Padilla Peralta thinks classicists should knock ancient … Continue reading →

Title this ‘The Enlightenment of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’ ? Mr. Ganesh doesn’t need to dust off his Madame Arcati shtick, he uses C-Span to demonstrate that Bill Clinton’s utter betrayal of the New Deal Tradition, in America, might … Continue reading →