Cruelty, the famous theorist Judith Shklar tells us, is the worst thing we do. For small-l and big-L liberals as different as Richard Rorty and George Kateb, cruelty is borne of moral solipsism, an overly me-centric attitude toward experience that ...
Beck is a PoMoCon — a post-modern conservative. And his philosophy is not all that difficult to articulate. It borrows a couple of things from traditional American conservatism: — It shares an extreme distrust for government, particularly the Federal ...
One thing we didn’t have time for: Irving Kristol’s attitude toward foreign policy. Kristol made two main points. One, it is in the good nature of America to defend democracies wherever and whenever attacked. Two, and in part (but only in part) for ...
On Morning Joe a few minutes ago, Pat Buchanan described the fear behind the death panel debate as the fear that old people without anyone around who loves them will be steered in their final years toward elective euthanasia. Surely the steering power ...
WASHINGTON, DC - While crews in green cranes cleaned the White House exterior from top to bottom, the Obama administration played host Monday in the adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building to a select group of mayors, district attorneys and ...
Titanic, a contrabulous fabtraption of a film that towered and tottered with huge follies and foibles, was redeemed by one, simple fact: it was a story about what’s true in us human beings. It took us as whole, integral persons. And it did so perhaps ...
Another thread that didn’t get woven into the final cloth was an important back and forth on the viability and suitability of “victory talk” in, and after, Afghanistan. Heather worried that talking victory, instead of ‘mere’ success, would continue to ...
Polo, with the embroidered and honestly chunky giant Polo logo on front, big fake number on the side, what is it, an eight or something. Avert mine eyes. And there we are. He sidles up and there I am being obliquely appalled. I am not a particularly ...
The fat is in the fire; the salt is on the briar rose. I only heed Public Service Announcements when accompanied by guitar. Dara beat me to it by a mere 17 minutes. “My Glamorist” will debut on Tumblr soon enough. Zup, Lieutenant? Bored of hanging out ...
I have a copy of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. I received my copy shrink-wrapped, new, and unopened. While looking up an archaic d-word yesterday, the pages of Vol. I fell open, and not to one of the places marked by the OED’s fine blue ribbon ...
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