Daily Archive: July 18, 2011

/// July 18, 2011

Conservatism: Defender of the Modern Welfare State?

I am grateful for the incentive Jason’s rebuttal provides to study conservative thinker Michael Oakeshott. However, I respectfully disagree with Jason’s conclusion that “esteem[ of] the present … on account of its familiarity” suffices...

J.L. Wall

/// July 18, 2011

“The Kids Are All Right” and the Obligation of “Third-Party Parents”

Because I’m at least a year behind when it comes to movies, I did not watch Harry Potter this weekend. I’ll probably wait until this time next year, when the crowds have died down...

Jason Kuznicki

/// July 18, 2011

Oakeshott’s Conservatism

Downblog, Tim Kowal writes: [T]here is an impression—mistaken, in my view—that people who advocate to maintain existing policies are “conservatives,” and people who advocate to change them are “liberals.” […] This approach, however, renders...

Tod Kelly

/// July 18, 2011

A Defense of Pragmatism

~by RTod When I was in high school I briefly embraced Communism. I did so for all the reasons white suburban 16 years olds often do: Communism was defiant and rebellious, seemed at...

Erik Kain

/// July 18, 2011

Harry Potter and the Art of the Epilogue

I still haven’t seen Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Deux yet, but I hear the epilogue is poorly handled. I was sort of agnostic about it in the book. Epilogues are hard....

Russell Saunders

/// July 18, 2011

Knock this off

June Thomas at Slate thinks that Dan Savage is behaving like a bully toward Marcus Bachmann. Bachmann, the husband of right-wing firebrand, Rep. Michele Bachmann, and is a proponent of reparative therapy to “fix”...