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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011106068.html There will be no careful platonic abstractions as in David Brooks (CP) or the self-cultivated superiority and contempt of the Great Will: for the Good Doctor (GD) is through and through a Neo-Conservative zealot, incapable of anything but the … Continue reading →

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/opinion/11brooks.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss  Cockeyed Platonist (CP) loves the great overarching abstraction: they make the world of randomness ,of the sometimes irrational somehow understandable, intellectually manageable; there is an orderliness of intellectual constructs that the human world sometimes, but not always demonstrates. But … Continue reading →

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One is uncomfortably and forcefully reminded of Hegel in the Phenomenology of the Spirit( #178-196) of the sections on Lordship and Bondage and even the interminable examination/analysis by Alexandre Kojeve of the slave/master dialectic, while reading Mr. Will’s column of … Continue reading →

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The Great Will opens his latest column with its provocative   title , ‘The charlatan’s response to the Tucson tragedy’ followed by his characterization of critics as indulging in ‘sociology’. Sociology being at its root Marxist with its main intellectual thrust … Continue reading →