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Justice Scalia and American Political Romanticism

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/03/scalia-women-discrimination-constitution_n_803813.html Let me disagree with the characterization of Marcia Greenberger in regards to the comments of Justice Scalia as ‘shocking’. There is nothing ‘shocking’, prima facie, in the comments of Scalia regarding women, women’s rights etc., they are in fact … Continue reading

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Leslie H. Gelb On Richard Holbrooke

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-02/leslie-h-gelb-on-the-late-richard-holbrookes-contributions-to-foreign-policy/2/ Is the point of Mr. Gelb’s encomium to Richard Holbrooke to satirize a whole literary genre? Or is it a tribute of one public intellectual to a man who wielded power and so a tribute to a sort of … Continue reading

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Arnold

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-01/arnold-schwarzenegger-leaves-california-governorship-jerry-brown-quietly-follows/ The real enemy of progress is the Public Sector Unions as argued by dalelama and Mort Zuckerman among others. This is simply the tired but necessary next step in the 'starving the beast strategy' of Grover Norquist and the … Continue reading

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People I rely on, 1

Kirk Garcia, Sandy Anderson, 'Kit' Anderson, Taylor Anderson, Mali Miller, Denise BeCotte, Steve Stark, Jimee Esposito, Ann Marie Johansen, Fernando, Paula Flees, Matthaeus, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzales,Russ Feingold,Glen Greenwald,Robert Scheer,Paul Krugman, Frank Rich,Emma Rothschild,Dieter Henrich, Pierre Hadot, Immanuel Kant, Jacques … Continue reading

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Snow Job

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“The Arena Culture”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/opinion/31brooks.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss  Cockeyed Platonist (CP) in his December 30, 2010 column titled ‘The Arena Culture’ reviews a new book by Herbert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly titled All Things Shining. ‘They take a smart, sweeping run through the history of Western … Continue reading

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Moroccan writer Taia challenges homosexual taboo – Yahoo! News

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The year of truth – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

This was (also ) a good year – the year of truth. The year that concludes tonight with a kiss was the year the Israeli masquerade party ended, the year the costumes were torn off and the truth came out. … Continue reading

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Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes: Law and the Inner Self, G. Edward White

“G. Edward White, as a prominent biographer, Supreme Court historian, and legal scholar, is uniquely qualified to cut through the clouds of incense which have so long obscured the figure of Justice Holmes. His analysis and revaluation of the man, … Continue reading

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Research links rise in Falluja birth defects and cancers to US assault | World news | The Guardian

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