Rawlsekianism Reloaded Part IIb: The Principles of Justice
~ by Murali [This is an ongoing series by guest author, Murali. Read Part I here. Read Part IIa here.] After a long hiatus where I was working on some other stuff, I am...
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Curb Your Dogma
~by RTod Two weeks ago I wrote a guest post for the League; it essentially had two central thrusts at its core: The first was trying to define a kind of principle-centered pragmatism. But...
Why Leftists Should Embrace (Some) Charter Schools
~by Shawn Gude One of the joys of intellectual development is having one’s views challenged and, if not fundamentally altered, at least measurably modified. When beneficial, this transformation is actuated not by perfunctory acceptance,...
The Triumph of Music and the Downfall of Books in the Digital Age
~by RTod Borders has announced that it is closing it’s doors and beginning liquidation; this of course is already old news in this digital world that killed it. If you are in your...
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...
“Libertarianism and Madisonianism
~ by James Hanley BlaiseP made the following Madison-inspired comment about libertarianism: It is a statement of sovereign truth that every scheme which believes men to be angels, that freedom is the highest good, that...
The Adventures of the Delineator: They Lost my Luggage?
~by Jon Stonger This is the first in a selection of short stories from The Adventures of the Delineator. These tales follow the clueless Captain Dave as he guides the small crew of the...
Rawlsekianism Reloaded: Normative justification
~ by Murali Recent comments by jfxgillis and Jason regarding libertarianism and Nozick have prompted a number of replies by myself and I have been promising for some time a guest post on how...
Getting at first principles in the education debate
~by Shawn Gude The shift in E.D. Kain’s thinking on education reform of late has been an interesting and, I think, beneficent one for reform discourse. Kain basically blanched when he began to perceive...
A New Political Dialectic
~ by Christopher Carr Jackson Lears has a riveting piece up at the Nation which soundly routs the new parapositivism taking the popular and newspaper science cultures by storm. The piece is called “Same Old New...
Health Care and Ping Pong
By Wyeth Ruthven Forget conference committees, any observer of health care reform needs to add the term “ping-pong” to their legislative vocabulary. Ping-pong is a little known but increasingly used procedural device to pass...
12 Steps to a Healthy Republican Party
by Jaybird There is a scene in C.S. Lewis’s _The Great Divorce that has been sticking in my craw in the last month or so. It’s the scene where they talk about Napoleon. If...
