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Policy and Dissent IFRL-TLC-Religion-GAPD-thyssen.jesus-among-the-doctors-31

Policy and Dissent

Erik Kain January 22, 2009
Max Socol is unhappy with our initial foray into the Israel/Palestine debate: Moral arguments concerning Israel and...
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The Ottoman Counterfactual

Erik Kain January 22, 2009
I offer up this alternate history for consideration: What if the Ottoman Empire had not fallen, or...
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incoherent blockbusters and the Dark Knight

Freddie January 22, 2009
I think it was Eagle Eye that finally broke me. I just can’t take any more movies...
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Neo-Traditionalism, Community, and the Post-Postmodern Gentleman IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-loc22

Neo-Traditionalism, Community, and the Post-Postmodern Gentleman

Erik Kain January 22, 2009
Scott coins an interesting term: post-postmodern.  The essence of the post-postmodern man, it seems, is a sort...
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Meet the New (Drug) Boss, Same as the Old One?

Chris Dierkes January 21, 2009
Fellow L.O.G.(ger?) ED’s post on drug legalization is exremely sharp from my vantage point.  He suggests legalizing...
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Same Sex Marriage and Nomenclature

Freddie January 21, 2009
In the epic podcast about same sex marriage between me, John Schwenkler and OG Scott Payne, John...
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the ethical sale of crystal meth

Erik Kain January 21, 2009
While I’m largely of the same mind as Freddie on the subject of drug legalization, which may...
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Civilization is a responsibility.

Freddie January 21, 2009
Reflecting on Israel, ED Kain writes Note when Foukara mentions that the only country Al-Jazeera has never...
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Multipolarity and Middle East

Chris Dierkes January 21, 2009
Scott’s intriguing counterintuitive post got me thinking.  He thinks Obama should hold off on diving into a...
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The Filter of War

Erik Kain January 21, 2009
Freddie writes: While I continue to believe that our national conversation is far from an equitable or...
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re:ratiocination: mexican drug insurgency edition

Freddie January 20, 2009
C. Augustin Dierkes post on the Mexican drug war to me highlighted one of the many downsides...
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ratiocination: mexican drug insurgency edition

Chris Dierkes January 20, 2009
My namesake, the great detective C. Auguste Dupin, who was himself an extraordinary gentlemen (I a member...
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our changing media and the future for Israel

Freddie January 20, 2009
Although I richly deserve a reputation as something of a polemicist, I’d like to think that I...
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