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Justice's Required Redeemer: On "The Dark Knight" (spoilers)
Is "The Dark Knight" worth all the hype? Given that it looks like a meditation on the themes of Redemption and Justice, and whether or not they are fully compatible, it probably is one of the most thoughtful movies to come along in a while.
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Towards a Nietzschean Understanding of Politics:
This is a commentary on Nietzsche that starts by walking the reader through his words line-by-line. Why is it important? B/c Nietzsche in this text asserts that some music is bad, and the music he picks on is Wagner's: an attempted pagan revival at the expense of Christianity is attacked fiercely here.
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Campaigning on the World Wide Web - Tactics and Strategy
Long, but tries to address why a campaign should educate even if its goal is merely victory. Rough answer: there is no such thing as simply "victory" when we are talking about policy and deliberation.
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Liberty and Equality in Tocqueville
Lots of people quote Tocqueville, but few try to introduce his ideas and discuss his importance. This post tries to bring at least one or two ideas to a popular audience.
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The Problem of Speech in Democratic Life
Needs an edit, but I think if you have a little bit of time you'll really like this.
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General Advice on Picking a College
David (gbudavid) thought this was worth sharing, and I think he's right and want to thank him for his kindness. Take a look if you would, please.
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On Alexander Hamilton's Federalist 84: What Are Rights?
This part is long, but details how the Constitution was supposed to protect rights without an added Bill of Rights.
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Why the Liberal Arts? Is There a Lasting Good?
Yeah, I'm working on the dissertation. But people at school can be frustrating sometimes, so in this rant I've included short comments on the significance of the Illiad and Odyssey and Dante's Divine Comedy and Plato's Ideal forms because I do believe this sort of learning will give us a better politics, and if I can't introduce these students to it, then I might as well keep bugging y'all.
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View All ShoutsContra Newt Gingrich's Vision for Education
I don't think anyone will agree with this, but I'd better say it loudly anyway.

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