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Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An essay on the necessity of contingency. Trans. Ray Brassier. London: Continuum, 2008 After Finitude by Quentin Meillassoux This book written by a young French philosopher has been taken up with great enthusiasm by a small … Continue reading →

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http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/12/08/the-crisis-of-the-american-intellectual/ If you read this long article By Walter Russell Mead you must read the devastating reply by Frank, listed as reply #8. It is masterful. Frank is on his game, and takes the space that he needs to really … Continue reading →

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  via nytimes.com Here is the utterly abhorrent Richard Nixon, showing the prejudices of a certain generation of American males, and their obsessive stereotyping of all others who were not them. Nixon’s policies almost look ‘progressive’ compared to the Republican … Continue reading →

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http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2010/12/charles-krauthammer-is-the-fraud/ Dear Mr. Crook, Mr. Krauthammer has set the level of debate at the level of the schoolyard taunt and you have followed suit. ‘Stupid Democrats’ has the intellectual patina of Mr. Thomas Friedman’s ‘suck on this’. A  strategy  that … Continue reading →