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Ethics and America’s Policy Intellectuals : Mr. Richard Haass by Philosophical Apprentice

Posted on June 18, 2013 by stephenkmacksd

While doing some research on the internet I came across this 2009 essay at The Daily Beast by Mr. Richard Haass titled Why I Didn’t Resign.  Here is the telling part of his argument: ‘People often ask me why I … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Cook, journalist on Facebook

Posted on June 14, 2013 by stephenkmacksd
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David Brooks Sternly Lectures Edward Snowden by Almost Marx

Posted on June 11, 2013 by stephenkmacksd

Does this sound familiar: ‘The Solitary Leaker‘, The Social Misfit,’the atomization of society, the loosening of social bonds’? The shotgun wedding of Psychoanalysis and Pop Sociology finds a home in the mind, the ‘thought’ of David Brooks?

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The Quality of Dissent

Posted on June 10, 2013 by stephenkmacksd
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Current Reading: The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt by Gopal Balakrishnan

Posted on June 9, 2013 by stephenkmacksd

“The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political thought. In the English-speaking world, he is terra incognita, a name associated with Nazism, the author of a largely … Continue reading →

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Books of Interest: The Literary Kierkegaard by Eric Ziolkowski

Posted on June 8, 2013 by stephenkmacksd

‘Eric Ziolkowski’s monumental study examines Kierkegaard’s “whole ‘prolix literature,’” including both the pseudonymous and the signed published writings as well as the private journals, papers, and letters, in relation to works by five literary giants from different times and places: … Continue reading →

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Against the Eurocrats: Ross Douthat confronts the failure of Europe by Political Observer

Posted on June 3, 2013 by stephenkmacksd

Despite the celebratory mood of Mr. Douthat’s premature obituary on Europe, in his essay of June 1, 2013 and it’s weak argument: the ‘welfare state’ as the motor of it’s decline. Decline, the idea fixe of Conservatism across time and … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts on Plato, Derrida and Writing by Jasper Neel, An essay by American Litterateur

Posted on June 1, 2013 by stephenkmacksd

Some years ago the intellectual reception of Mr. Jacques Derrida could be divided into two camps: the acolytes,practitioners and apologists of deconstruction and those who, at the mention of his name, exclaimed charlatan, intellectual con man or stronger words of … Continue reading →

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Andrew Sullivan,Reinhold Niebuhr,’Christian Realism’ and President Obama by Political Observer

Posted on May 27, 2013 by stephenkmacksd

I find the public career of Mr. Andrew Sullivan puzzling, disappointing even infuriating. I started reading him when he was writing for The New York Observer and subsequently as he and Christopher Hitchens kept the debate of 9/11 within the bounds … Continue reading →

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Ross Douthat on the National Defense University speech by Political Observer

Posted on May 26, 2013 by stephenkmacksd

The American Empire is and will be at perpetual war. That is the fate of empires, but the fate of the Republic is a matter of our gravest concern. How do the tangible facts of empire and it’s necessary strategies … Continue reading →

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