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Category Archives: Philosophy
Proposition Nation vs. Blood & Soil
From a speech McCain gave last night: “To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our … Continue reading
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Heisenberg vs. Positivism
“The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that … Continue reading
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Orthodoxy
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.” — G.K. Chesterson, Orthodoxy (1908)
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Psychologists on Virtue Signaling
From “Moral Outrage Is Self-Serving, Say Psychologists”: When people publicly rage about perceived injustices that don’t affect them personally, we tend to assume this expression is rooted in altruism—a “disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.” But new … Continue reading
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Samuel Huntington, Prophet for the Trump Era
WaPo has an article on “Samuel Huntington, a prophet for the Trump era”. The article is decent overview of Huntingtons’ intellectual progression from civic nationalist to a more pessimistic, European-chauvinist perspective, which of course the WaPo writer finds abhorrent: President … Continue reading
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Norm MacDonald – Professor of Logic Joke
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The Camus-Sartre Split
It’s interesting how the Camus-Sartre split — with Sartre the ardent communist condoning violence in the interests of a communist utopia, and Camus the socialist skeptic of communism – parallels what’s going on today, where totalitarian Antifa anti-globalists parallel Sartre, … Continue reading
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The Ethics of ‘No Borders’
Breitbart reports: “Italy Releases Evidence of Open Borders NGO Taking Migrants from People Smugglers”. In terms of a consistent philosophical ethics, such would be the logical extension of liberal ‘All are welcome’/ ‘No borders’ types. In fact, their philosophy ought … Continue reading
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Roger Scruton: How To Be A Conservative
The Hoover Institute’s Uncommon Knowledge series just posted a wonderful, 45 min interview with the great Roger Scruton, on the topic of ‘How to Be a Conservative’. From the Hoover Institute description: In the latest episode from Uncommon Knowledge, Sir Roger … Continue reading
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Dialogues in Scrutopia
In The New Criterion, Daniel Mahoney reviews the book Conversations with Roger Scruton, which is a series of interviews Mark Dooley (Scruton’s intellectual biographer) held with the great and incredibly prodigious Roger Scruton: How does one begin to classify the prodigious … Continue reading
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