Politics, Culture, Books, Movies, Odds and Ends.
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A.47. Vladimir Nabakov: “Pale Fire”
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Don’t argue about abstractions.
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Where Have All The Headstones Gone?
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Congress is Perpetual Litigation
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Do Better People See More?
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The Three Stages of Democracy
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Notes on Zen. Like A Crow Collects Pebbles.
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“Les Miserable” (Movie)
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What is a Political Party?
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Conflict of Visions, Left and Right.
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Christian Wiman: “My Bright Abyss”
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Snowdon and the Nuremberg Principle
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Political Debate is Inherently Corrupt
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Smart, But Bitter, Is Uglier
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“Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing”, by Frederick Franck
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The Ethic of Happiness Kills the Conscience
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The Myth of Female Peacefulness
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The Disingenuous Voice Of Political Activists
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Rival Versions of History
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“Although You End Up Becoming Yourself…A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace”.
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The First Object of Government: Thwart the Majority’s Theft
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The Two Operations Of The Intellect
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“Searching For Bobby Fischer” (Movie)
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The Ponzi Molecule
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Willa Cather: “My Antonia”
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“Avatar” (Movie)
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Melting Pot
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Government Workers Are Structurally Hamstrung
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The Presidency
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History and Politics and your Future
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Thinking Out Loud On Air Pollution
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Politics, Cliff’s notes version
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Two Parties Will Inevitably Refine Their Split
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Ontological rank is the limit on knowing.
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Occam’s Razor: the data set decides the game
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Shadowlands: the movie
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Athens, Jerusalem, and Mecca
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Self As Cosmos
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Why science in the West?
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American Supreme Court And Global Law
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Conspiracy Theory
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Unnecessary arguments
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Regulation as Paternalism
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Politics Is Inevitably Slander
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Healthcare is Frankenstein
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All. Governments. Will. Torture.
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Cultural Diversity As Powder Keg
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Theodore Dalrymple: The False Apology Syndrome
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The End Begins When Balancing Becomes Swapping
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The Everyman Sentiment
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Challenge the Premise
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Notes from Neil Postman: “Amusing Ourselves To Death”
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“Meaning”
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The Mind Puzzles, The Feelings Feel, The Heart Wants
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Memorial Day 2008
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Alice Walker’s distraction
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Technology births and kills culture
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You’ll slide off, either up or down.
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Meaning
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Jacques Barzun: Extended Quotes from “Begin Here”
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Love and the Principle of Parsimony