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Creating Statesmen: Aristotle on What is Naturally Right
ashokAddresses the typical argument "If everyone disagrees on laws, then there can't be any such thing as justice," moving through Aristotle's views on that and the foundation of government.
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Want Statesmen? Then You Need the Liberal Arts
The Federalist Papers - written in defense of the Constitution by no less than Alexander Hamilton and James Madison - emphasize protection of private property so we can be free and secure. They do this to the detriment of things like "honor," which can be considered fictional b/c it isn't real like "money." But can a society without honor live?
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Beyond 2008: How Do We Create a Better Politics?
FTA: "I’d be lying to you if I told you that the academy in the US wasn’t rabidly Leftist; I wish I could be more balanced about this, but I’ve been through it, and I’ve said before the only way we’re going to get a balanced education is to make the various parties in this country educate truly regarding their own ideologies."
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Creating Statesmen, Part 2: Democracy, Oligarchy and Athens
This article is a reading of a portion of a Socratic dialogue, complete with background and commentary. The issue is what we need to bring to politics so it isn't merely class warfare.
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The Politics of Denial: On Senator Obama's Acceptance Speech
The trouble with "The American Promise" isn't that Senator Obama gave a bad speech - his speech was very good and very inspiring. Which is all the more reason he should have taken the time to attack the best Republican arguments, not create straw-men and spend more time talking about new programs than an actual change in orientation.
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Is the US a nation of predatory lending and debt, or freedom
Is the US a nation of debtors or savers? How does that impact our conception of economics generally?
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Two Very Important Articles on Value, Economics and Public
So yeah - why is my generation in the US up to its ears in debt?
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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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