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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary

Our global Oligarchs

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Jennifer Rubin : Public Reason, Authority and Neo-Conservatism

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/left_right_center_the_112th_congress_and_you_20110107/ Jennifer Rubin in her seemingly casual aside, a maladroit put- down, of questioning Robert Scheer and what planet he is on, gives a revelatory view of the Political Theology at the center of Neo-Conservativism. To call it a Theology … Continue reading

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Matt Taibbi: The Crying Shame of John Boehner | Rolling Stone Politics

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As 2011 opens, Geoffrey Wheatcroft offers a sombre assessment on the current political and economic malaise in the Guardian, contrasting the reality of the post-Cold War order with the euphoric claims made twenty years ago:

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Adam Yauch Cancer-Free: Beastie Boys Rapper Beats Disease

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William Daley chosen as new White House chief of staff

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Michael Kimmage Reviews Jason W. Stevens’s “God-Fearing And Free” | The New Republic

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Martin Heidegger : Politics,Art,and Technology Edited By Karsten Harries and Christoph Jamme

http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ir/tt/index.html In the collection of essays that title this post there is an essay number 13 by Dermot Moran : The Destruction Of The Destruction : Heidegger's Version of the History of Philosophy. In this fascinating piece Mr. Moran, in … Continue reading

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Max Boot and The Defense of The American Empire

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/boot/385761#We have graduated from ‘The Clash of Civilizations’ as argued by Mr. Huntington in his bloated article in Foreign Affairs- we can argue that that was just a transitional phase of American Imperial rationalization, that now clarifies itself  with the … Continue reading

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