L.A. Times: Election laws tightening in GOP-run states an essay by Publius

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-vote-florida-20111031,0,…

Should we be at all surprised about the stance of The Republican Party and their need to demonize their opposition, by useing the crudest of tactics of undemonstrated election fraud and the menace of Acorn? The political thuggery of notorious Right Wing hacks is the sum total of the politcal menace of ‘election fraud’. The need of a Party, that has surrendered to manufactured political hysteria, that has been it’s hallmark, since the rise of benighted Mr. Nixon has ,in fact, become the captive of the No-Nothings, the political nihilists, and the Neoconservtive zelots. The Noble Lie is its singularly usable idea, it can in its desperation,posit no other concept of its operational politics than the friend/enemy of Carl Schmitt and his sub rosa ally Leo Strauss. The Modern Republican Party has lost its way. When the icon of post war American politics, Dwight D. Eisenhower is judged to be too Liberal, too allied to the New Deal, we have reached a point at which we must enuciate, in all candor, that the leaders of this Party are menacing political psychotics, capable of all manner of destrutiveness, including the usurpation of Constitutional governance,in service to a ruthless power seeking.That is a regrettable but necessary, even bitter, conclusion.

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Books of Interest: Can’t Stop Won’t Stop by Jeff Chang

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Books of Interest: White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race Edited by Stephen Duncombe, and Maxwell Tremblay Foreword by James Spooner

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Books of Interest: Of Men and Manners, Essays Historical and Philosophical by Anthony Quinton

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Books of Interest: The Opacity of mind, An Integrative Theory of Self- Knowledge by Peter Carruthers

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Books of Interest: Rationality and Religious Commitment by Robert Audi

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Books of Interest: Know How by Jason Stanley

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Book of Interest:The Copernican Question,Prognostication,skepticism,and celestial order by Robert S.Westman.

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Please see the TLS review by David Wootton in the October 21st 2011 edition, titled Traffic of the mind.

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520254817

 

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Books of Interest: The Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914 by C.A. Bayly

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Paul H. Rosenberg: The Last Freudian? by Political Observer

I attempted to comment on Paul H. Rosenberg’s latest essay, titled Fighting The Politics of Illusion, at AlJazeera this morning. The tweet of my comment was visible but my comment was absent. Was I ,perhaps, too pointed in my reply? My essay began with the question: Is Paul H. Rosenberg the last Freudian? Does he live in a time warp, in which the scholarship of Frank Sulloway, E.M.Thorton and Frederick Crews have yet to be historically manifest? Is Anna Freud, the author of The Ego and The Mechanism of Defense, on which he bases his essay, suffering from the effects of her ‘unresolved Oedipal strivings’ as intellectual heir and explicator of Freudian Science? Is Mr. Rosenberg intellectual curiosity and scholership mired in the year 1960? I am recalling what I wrote, rather than quoting directly. Mr. Rosenberg attempts to psychologize the the roles of political/ economic actors of the Economic Crisis of 2008 and the apologists for the aftermath. He offers no usable insights into the practice of wholesale thievery and the intellectual rationalizers of Free Market Economics: while one could hazard a guess at the idea and practice of greed, as a motivation for such conduct. That is following the Law of Parsimony, that the simplist explantion for any observed phenomenon is the best. Is Mr. Rosenberg’s use of the work of a prominent Freudian theorist, simply a manifestation of needing an intellectual prop and garnish to add a kind of luster to some not very original thinking?

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