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http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/01/19/obama_holder_doj_miranda&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%20Newsletter%20%28Not%20Premium%29_7_30_110#   The argument from exceptionalism must be subject to ruthless questioning and relentless public scrutiny. It is the argument of tyrants,liars and political opportunists! The assertion that a republic can be predicated upon secrets: ‘secret laws’, ‘secret courts’, ‘secret … Continue reading →

Buried in the middle of William James’s chapter on “The Sick Soul” in The Varieties of Religious Experience is the melancholy voice of one asylum patient. “There is no longer any past for me,” the inmate relates, “I can no … Continue reading →

Palestinians are well within their rights to bring the issue of Israeli settlements and their illegality before the United Nations Security Council. Our decision to do so follows both Israel’s refusal to cease all settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian … Continue reading →

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/opinion/14brooks.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss I missed this column by Cockeyed Platonist (CP) when it was first published. 'The Tree Of Failure' is a title redolent with possibilities and CP exercises his good judgment and ethical restraint to telling effect.This is not simply a … Continue reading →

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About This Book About the Authors Reviews This book examines “the great contraction” of 2007–2010 within the context of the neoliberal globalization that began in the early 1980s. This new phase of capitalism greatly enriched the top 5 percent of … Continue reading →

About This Book About the Authors Reviews Table of Contents The advent of economic neoliberalism in the 1980s triggered a shift in the world economy. In the three decades following World War II, now considered a golden age of capitalism, … Continue reading →

In this collection of essays I chose to read, as a break from my other reading, Deep Disquietudes:Reflections on Wittgenstein as Anti-philosopher by Louis Sass. Having started my reading about Wittgenstein with ‘Wittgenstein’s Vienna’ nearly forty years ago and re-reading … Continue reading →

Earlier this month we published a new book from Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, both of whom are Directors of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Duménil and Lévy are the authors of an earlier … Continue reading →