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Most people strongly condemn terrorism; yet they often fail to say how terrorist acts differ from other acts of violence such as the killing of civilians in war. Stephen Nathanson argues that we cannot have morally credible views about terrorism … Continue reading →

No justice on earth until there is justice for women March 30, 2011 by Peter · 1 Comment   Scan the headlines on any given day and you’re sure to find dozens of stories about girls and women being abused, … Continue reading →

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/arts/actor-farley-granger-dies-at-85.html?hpw Great quote from the obit:'For Mr. Granger, the live audience was what made theater superior to filmmaking. “I love getting laughs,” he said in an interview in 1982, in the midst of a substantial run as a replacement Sidney … Continue reading →

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-dark-side-of-andrew-roberts-1765229.html   Thank you to two posters at Truthdig: Inherit The Wind and monthofsundays for the link to Johann Hari’s indispensable article on the British Historian Andrew Roberts.  Now Pretty Boy Reactionary has a friend and helpmate, who also can … Continue reading →

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-29/obamas-speech-presented-his-vision-of-american-exceptionalism/   My American Political Theology is better than your American Political Theology might be a better title for these hasty jottings of Cogitating Peter (CP). It echoes of a schoolyard taunt. How many times will be treated to 'patriotic … Continue reading →

I first read a review of  the book Newman’s Unquiet Grave in the December 23, 2010 New York Review of Books, that was both interesting, even challenging by Eamon Duffy. I read the review twice and then purchased the book. … Continue reading →

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-20/niall-ferguson-obamas-indecision-about-libya/ We know two things about Pretty Boy Reactionary (PBR) that he is a cultivated gentleman of the eighteenth century and that he has, like most of his colleagues on the right, a fascination, even a romance with men and … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/economy/25tax.html?hp Here in the good gray New York Times, the American paper of record, is a report that will warm the hearts of all the, now, sub rosa Freemarketeers: in vivid detail we are presented with compelling evidence of the … Continue reading →