1 day ago by nemo

by Julian Scholarship and politics don’t mix. At least not according to literary theorist and New York Times blogger Stanley Fish, who has been arguing for years that professors should “save the world on their own time.” Just last week, he reiterated this point in a column about a conference he atte ...

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10 days ago by charliethechulo

“A hundred real thalers do not contain the least coin more than a hundred possible thalers…My financial position is, however, affected very differently by a hundred real thalers than it is by the mere concept of them (that is of their possibility)” - Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (1781) Now ...

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15 days ago by zen

Dr. Steve Metz, a friend of ZP blog and Chairman of the Regional Strategy and Planning Department and Research Professor of National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute, has new and heavily footnoted article up at SWJ: Psychology of Participation in Insurgency It’s common sense: to m ...

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16 days ago by RDCushing

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand. It is a construction of theorists, deriving from certain tendencies of abstract thought with which for a long ti ...

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25 days ago by jamesbradfordpate

There was an insightful comment by Stephen under Rachel Held Evans’ post, The problem of biblicism. Stephen states the following: “If one has to attend 3-4+ years of seminary and do a PhD, all the while being informally mentored by other evangelical academics, in order to put “biblicism” into practi ...

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28 days ago by michaelgreenwell

Learn a new language and get a new soul. - Czech Proverb As an outsider looking at the Republican primaries, it always seems like the best thing we could hope for is the victory of the least obviously mad candidate. He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. – Johan ...

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38 days ago by Andrea Valentini

RnR Terrorists – Garage Gewalt (Bubca, 2011) Il termine tedesco Gewalt, nel suo significato comprende al tempo stesso sia la potestas sia la violentia – cito malamente, e non per bullarmi. E’ dunque un atto di forza che comporta la presenza di una legittimazione del ricorso alla violenza. E per i to ...

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40 days ago by Ahmed Sajjad Hashemy

Introduction The debate about what happened at the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, is marred and mired by ever-increasing attempts to debunk the work of scientists and others who are investigating the evidence for controlled explosive demolition. … Continue reading →

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43 days ago by zen

George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis Zero History by William Gibson Just picked these up. Zero History will have to wait until I read Spook Country, which sits on my shelf. Gibson is good; along with Steven Pressfield he is one of the few living writers of fiction that I will take ...

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46 days ago by zen

Military theorist John Arqilla offers a provocative piece in Foreign Policy: The (B)end of History ….How the new pattern will unfold is still unclear, but just as the first nation-states were often tempted to become empires, there may be a pattern in which nations and networks somehow seek to fuse r ...

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