"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger, or a beer." ~ Confucius Matt...
Month: March 2010
Peter Gray has a fascinating piece in Psychology Today arguing, quite counter-intuitively, that in order to improve...
Here’s the story of an extraordinarily petty response to a review of a book. The reviewer, Caleb...
“This book was one of my earliest introductions to fantasy and thus to the limits (or lack...
Bob Cheeks asks: “Do you see yourself, in some degree, to be anti-statist? What is your opinion...
Chris Hayes and Reihan Salam had a Bloggingheads discussion the other day about their latest articles in...
So I had a cut on the side of my nose the other day that has scarred...
And now for something completely non Philip Blond related…. A foreign policy rant. (I don’t know what...
“Surely, a loaf of bread is the centre of the parable of life” ~ yet more G.K....
“In short, the democratic faith is this: that the most terribly important things must be left to...
The first rule of rice cooker is that you do not talk about rice cooker. The rice...
I’ve learned one thing from listening to Phillip Blond’s recent talk at Georgetown: I’m no Red Tory....
Personally, I’m a Palin agnostic, but this line in an article in the recent Catholic Register cracked...
Oedipus Rex is an extraordinarily cruel play. Oedipus has seemingly done nothing wrong and lacks the fatal...
In a really crackerjack post, Mr. Dierkes, writes: “The hallmark of the liberal procedural republic according to...
Peter Atwater writes (concerning the fears of a double dip recession): Unfortunately, from my perspective there have...
I said awhile ago that, despite some early promisnig signs, the real test of whether Governor Christie is...
Goes to JosephFM (comment #5) to my earlier post on Philip Blond and Michael Sandel.
David – I wonder if what Blond is trying to do is to bridge the divide between...
Two of the League’s brethren attended Philip Blond’s lecture at Georgetown last week. Will’s review here, David’s...
