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On The Myth of The Rational Republican by Political Observer, or Professor Corey Robin delivers the goods!
Katrina vanden Heuval tweeted a link to this essay by Mr. John G. Taft at the New York Times of October 22, 2013, titled The Cry of the True Republican. Ancestor worship is quite a marvel to confront in such … Continue reading
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Zbig on the political burdens of the Hegemon
@zbig The Hegemon must never betray or demonstrate it’s political contradictions and or weakness! See A. Scalia on 2000 election: ‘ We were the laughingstock of the world. The world’s greatest democracy that couldn’t conduct an election. We didn’t know … Continue reading
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On Adoration: Jennifer Senior interviews Justice Scalia a comment by Political Cynic
Is adoration the wrong word? Some examples of the questions: ‘While your opinions are are delectable to read…’, ‘Is your favorite one-liner still the sausage one?’, ‘Fifty years from now, which decisions in your tenure do you think will be … Continue reading
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Small Government Conservative’s Quixotic Crusade: Ross Douthat pronounces on the problem with the help of David Frum’s Dead Right, a comment by Political Cynic
Douthat Chatter and Frum Chatter are as twin expressions of the self-destroying elan of the American Republican Party. Although, Frum Chatter, in this instance, opts for a shift of focus to his proclaimed victory of British Conservative governance, and the … Continue reading
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Compare Daniel Pipes and Paul Collier on the Migration Question by Political Observer
Read this essay by Daniel Pipes on what I can only call a kind of Sophisticated Xenophobia, on the question of the Syrian Refugee, that he argues must be- the title expresses his singular idea: ‘Let Refugees Remain in Their … Continue reading
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Geoffrey Kabaservice: The Tea Party, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, A Political Fable. A comment by Political Cynic
I posted a comment on a Financial Times essay by John McDermott, this morning. And asked as part of it, Where are the Eisenhower Republicans?, to speak out against the Republican Nihilist. As I was driving to the gym this … Continue reading
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Episode CCCIL of The American Political Melodrama: Mr. William Kristol vs Senator Angus King by Political Observer
Why is the Republican Party headed straight to a permanent status as the party of daft plutocratic apologists, and craven imperial war mongers?(It almost sounds like a description of the New Democrats) But watch Mr. Bill Kristol, on ‘The Powerhouse … Continue reading
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Ross Douthat on the ‘New Reformers’ by Political Observer
Mr. Douthat continues in his rhetorical mood of fabulism, that he expressed in his essay Call Me Vlad , with his latest entry titled Good Populism, Bad Populism. In sum Mr. D. presents the argument that the Republican Nihilists are … Continue reading
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Current reading: The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes by Jeffrey R. Collins
The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes offers a revisionist interpretation of Thomas Hobbes’s evolving response to the English Revolution. It rejects the prevailing understanding of Hobbes as a consistent, if idiosyncratic, royalist, and vindicates the contemporaneous view that the publication of … Continue reading
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Mr. Ross Douthat’s latest thought experiment by Political Cynic
What a wonderful stew of Conservative chatter ,that only Mr. Douthat can throw together, and still maintain any notion of the coherent, as he puts his various ingredients into the pot. He then applies intellectual heat, of a kind, to … Continue reading
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