Daily Archives: April 28, 2013

Momma Borat’s Shoplifting… er, I Mean Depression

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Max West

I’m not sure where in the Koran it condones theft, but then I forgot: as long as one is stealing from the infidels, I suppose, it’s okay. After all, if sawing the head off a civilian infidel (or setting off … Continue reading →

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Donald Kagan: “Democracy May Have Had Its Day”

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Max West

80-year old Yale classics scholar Donald Kagan gave his ‘farewell’ lecture this past Thursday. He is of a generation that cherished the Western tradition: Universities, he proposed, are failing students and hurting American democracy. Curricula are “individualized, unfocused and scattered.” … Continue reading →

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Marx vs. Nietzsche

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Max West

Many moons ago, in college, a good decade before I made a conservative turn, I was regularly exposed to both Marxism and postmodernism (e.g., Foucault, Derrida). Both sets of ideas excited me at the time. As idea-systems, they were both… … Continue reading →

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