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Jul 08, 2009 07:33

Nature, red in tooth and claw narwhal pieces: Don't let cute overrun the world, fight back with your own Avenging Narwhal!

How to do carpetbagger steak with pictures.

Review of a book about the very different sexual outlooks of West and East and the interaction between the two.

A model of critical thinking.

About Zhao Zhiyang’s posthumous memoirs.

About the life and liberalism of Sir Isaiah Berlin.

About de Tocqueville and the power of ideas.

About the duc de Saint-Simon and his extraordinary Memoirs.

About the life and death of Trotsky.

About the insufferable pseudo-brilliance of graduate students.

An informative and wide-ranging discussion between Alan Wolfe and Russ Roberts on liberalism.

About the use of the term ‘neoliberalism’. The full paper (pdf): In the quotes of Mises and Rustow we see reflected a schism of liberalism: To Rustow, old school liberals like Mises were dangerous extremists; to Mises, neoliberals were not much better than totalitarian socialists. In any case, neoliberalism as a concept was clearly established as something quite different from the ‘free market radicalism’ with which it is usually associated today. Neoliberalism, from Rustow’s 1932 speech to the Colloque Walter Lippmann of 1938, had been the attempt to formulate an anti-capitalist, anti-communist, but halfsocialist Third Way.

About the repression in Burma.

Member of UAE royal family videotaped engaged in torture.

philosophy, links, torture

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