Daily Archives: November 30, 2013

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From the hilariously leftist and pomo world of academia, as reported by the NYT: The philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, known for his wide-ranging and accessible writings on cosmopolitanism, identity and global ethics, will be leaving Princeton for New York University … Continue reading

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TechCrunch: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries

TechCrunch discovers the Dark Enlightenment (“Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries“). Many of us yearn for a return to one golden age or another. But there’s a community of bloggers taking the idea to an extreme: they want … Continue reading

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The Slow Death of Social Capital

In 2007, liberal social theorist Robert Putnam made a discovery so startling that he sat on his research for an unusually long time, thinking he must have overlooked some mitigating factor he had not yet considered. But, alas, the evidence … Continue reading

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