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Books of Interest: The Reactionary Mind, Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin by Corey Robin

http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/PoliticalTheory/?vi…  

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Books of Interest:American Neoconservatism: The Politics and Culture of a Reactionary Idealism by Jean-Francois Drolet

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-70228-7/american-neoconservatism

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Books of Interest: Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making by Graham Harman

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-7486-4080-5/quentin-meillassoux  

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Books of Interest: Hermeneutic Communism by Gianni Vattimo & Santiago Zabala

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-15802-2/hermeneutic-communism  

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Books of Interest:The Memory Wars by Frederick Crews published by New York Review Books

I had read this book some years ago, but was recently reminded of it by two essays published in The New York Review of Books by Professor Crews, titled Physician Neal Thyself. I have provide a link to the Review’s … Continue reading

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Books Of Interest: The Self and It’s Emotions by Kristjan Kristjansson , Cambridge University Press

Just read about this book in the October 7, 2011 issue of the TLS, in an essay by Marya Schechtman titled Nature of me. http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item2702902/?site_locale=en_US

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Leslie H. Gelb on the Political Wisdom of Hillary Clinton by Political Cynic

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/14/hillary-clinton-speech-to-economic-club-of-new-york-a-brilliant-moment.html Here is Leslie H. Gelb adopting the rhetorical guise of the outsider to the Washington insiders who make and endlessly argue about Foreign Policy, intellectuals dedicated to the American Interest. He is one of those insiders, who receive calls … Continue reading

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Books of Interest: Descartes an Intellectual Biography by Stephen Gaukroger

http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/History/17thC/?vi… I keep going back to this old friend, when I have questions, and when I want to renew that friendship in pursuit of my intellectual quests. Intellectual Quixote

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OWS and the Tactical Mistake of the Political Legitimists by Almost Marx

Any attempt to ‘clean’ the private park, now in the hands of dissidents,will be a predictable end that will make real the power of a corrupt Capitalism. This is a reading that fully follows the mass media lead of handycapping … Continue reading

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How Stupid is Mayor Bloomberg?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/10/13/us.occupy.wall.street/  

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