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Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Louis Menand's New Yorker Piece on Two New Books About the U.S. Constitution
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As a result of my frequent (and shameless) self-promotion (which practice, to be fair, was urged on me by my publisher), I suppose that mo...
Friday, September 13, 2024
What a 1927 Novel, Made into a 1932 Boris Karloff Horror Movie, Can Tell Us About Current U.S. Politics
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Just this (from the character, Margaret regarding the tycoon, Sir William): [S]he was troubled by a vision of factories and ships and cro...
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Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Paine and Bentham on Democracy and "Natural Rights"
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Not long ago, at a social media site I frequent, I was discussing (OK, pontificating on) the nature of “natural rights” and pondering whet...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
How to be be Right, Good, and Popular Without Being Interesting
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There may be nobody more beloved by the American left these days than Prof. Cox Richardson. She's not only a progressive academic, she...
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