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Daily Archives: November 16, 2013
Krauthammer on Krauthammer
With Krauthammer’s book now #1 on the NYT non-fiction bestseller list, Politico has an article “Krauthammer on Krauthammer”. Of the widespread resonance his writing has in the Beltway: On Capitol Hill, Krauthammer’s columns are read religiously by Republican members and … Continue reading
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CoS Flag Building
Ahh… CoS is finally unveiling the 377,000 SF “Flag Building” this weekend, where cult members can get ‘superpowers’. I walked around that building last year, took a few photos, and was monitored the whole time I was there.
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Is There Still An England?
Derb visits the home country, anecdotally observes the demographics of a few locales, and finds “There’s Still an England – And It Could Yet Be Saved”: With a firm change of policy soon, England might yet be saved as a … Continue reading
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The School of Arthur Danto
In “The School of Arthur Danto”, Crispin Sartwell opines on the late Arthur Danto’s very influential philosophical aesthetics. (I never really warmed to Danto’s “institutional theory of art”, which surfs a bit too closely to relativism for my tastes.) Sartwell … Continue reading
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Are Millennials Turning Their Backs on the American Dream?
In “Are Millennials Turning Their Backs on the American Dream?”, Joel Kotkin discusses “the perception of a majority of middle class Americans that their children will not do better than them, with as many as pessimistic about the future as … Continue reading
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