Political Philosophy

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• America’s Right Wing: Fear Leads to Hate, and Hate Leads to Suffering

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Since the introduction of Sarah Palin into the 2008 election, the right wing has been on the warpath. The rhetoric and volume of their message has been taken to increasingly fanatical extremes in an attempt to derail the movement for change and reform in America. This has already resulted in many deaths, and the ...
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• A Christian cannot be a libertarian

  
  Say Hello to my Little Friend — Authority: 490
  Let me first say that the title of this blog entry is obvious false in any literal sense. A Christian can be a libertarian. A Christian can also be a fascist, a communist, a drug dealer, a liar, a democrat, a republican, a shoddy tradesman, an idiot, and any number of things. That’s not [...]
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• Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part II

  
  MandM — Authority: 127
  In my last post, Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part I , I set out the doctrine of religious restraint and touched on some criticisms of it. In this post, I begin looking at and critiquing some of the key arguments in support of the doctrine of religious restraint. II         Arguments for ...
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• Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part I

  
  MandM — Authority: 127
  As far back as the birth of liberal democracy commentators have proposed various forms of epistemological restraint on the nature and extent of the justifications offered for coercive laws. Justification is important because central to the concept of liberal democracy is the notion that all people are free and equal. ...
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• Rhodes Scholars and the Business World

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  On the weekend that next year’s Rhodes Scholars are announcd, Elliot Gerson, American secretary of the Rhodes Trust and executive vice president of the Aspen Institute, writes in the Washington Post that he is greatly disappointed that a few Rhodes Scholars have gone into business. Yes, you read that right. ...
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• On Movember, Tim Soutphommasane and civics

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 568
  A while back I wrote – in rather skeptical vein – about Tim Soutphommasane’s claim that progressives should be reclaiming patriotism. Guy Rundle has now reviewed Soutphommasane’s book, Reclaiming Patriotism: nation building for Australian progressives , for Crikey (of which more later). I’m largely ...
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• The “Complex” Left vs the “Simple” Right

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 652
  Over at Hit&Run, there is a thread about how simplistic and empty Sarah Palin is compared to Obama or previous conservatives. Leaving out the fact that both Reagan and Goldwater suffered the same contempt in their time that Palin does now, it does raise the issue of whether it is important that leftists do in ...
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• Jon Stewart Interviews Lou "Dumbass" Dobbs

  
  Sapere Aude! — Authority: 133
  The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Exclusive - Lou Dobbs Extended Interview Pt. 1 www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis You can check out the rest of the interview here .  I often ask myself the same question Stewart ...
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• Obama and Reagan’s Speeches about Freedom

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  President Obama spoke to Chinese college students on Monday, as President Ronald Reagan spoke to Moscow State University students in 1988. There were a lot of similarities — both men are great communicators, convinced of the rightness of their views and of their persuasive ability, and confident that their values ...
  6 days ago

• On the Moral Obligation to Tell a Truthful Narrative

  
  RedBlueChristian — Authority: 117
  Story is intrinsic to our existence. Indeed, story is our existence. Life is an attempt to understand the narrative or narratives that makes sense of who we are or what we are about. It is not necessarily easy, however, to understand our narratives truthfully. We human beings are masters of twisting and turning the ...
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• Crazy for God : Frank Schaeffer on the Rachel Maddow Show

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 562
  [There was a remarkable segment on last nights Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC (Nov. 17, 2009). Former evangelical leader Frank Schaeffer described for Maddow and her audience some genuinely frightening activity that is occurring on the fringes of the religious right, including the use of biblical verse to make ...
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• Palin And Co. Energizing GOP

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  Conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham recently sent an email blast to her listeners stating something very simple, yet profound: Conservatism is the most influential political philosophy of the past 100 years because it is built upon essential truths. Ms. Ingraham is right for many reasons, but mainly because ...
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• The End of Public Higher Ed in Cali?

  
  Sapere Aude! — Authority: 133
  
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• Talkin’ Libertarianism

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  In response to a question today, I found a C-SPAN appearance from 2006 on their website. Host Steve Scully was teaching a class on “Issues in Media and Public Policy” with students at the Cable Center’s Distance Learning Studio in Denver . He asked me to join him for a discussion of libertarianism and public ...
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• Cathy Young At Reason: The Rise Of Communist Nostalgia

  
  Chris Navin — Authority: 126
  Full article here . Young suggests that for some East Germans recalling Communism: “According to an analysis in the German magazine Spiegel , what drives this rose-colored view—shared by many young people who barely remember life under communism—is a peculiar sense of pride and humiliation ...
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• Taking Over Everything (2)

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  “My critics say that I’m taking over every sector of the economy,” President Obama complained to George Stephanopoulos back in September. And I responded: Not every sector. Just health care energy local schools banks insurance companies automobile companies compensation at financial ...
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• On the Question of Torture

  
  Homeward Bound — Authority: 113
  Would you torture a man to save him? Little Jashon was missing after his mothers body was discovered. The suspect in his mothers murder is a multiple felon who has killed a child before. At 17-months-old, even if unharmed, this little boy wouldnt survive long without care. As John at Verum Serum points out, ...
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• Broad Sides, One Woman’s Clash with a Corrupt Culture

  
  Barely A Blog — Authority: 131
  My first book, Broad Sides, One Woman’s Clash with a Corrupt Culture, is now back in print. The publisher is accepting pre-orders now, and will fulfill them in about two weeks, just in time for your Christmas shopping. The Second Edition comes with bonus material and reviews. All in all, it is a very ...
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• A Planned Society and the Rule of Law

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 652
  To say that in a planned society the Rule of Law cannot hold is, therefore, not to say that the actions of the government will not be legal or that such a society will necessarily be lawless. It means only that the use of the government’s coercive powers will no longer be limited and determined by pre-established ...
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• “Hayek’s legacy … is still brightly promoted”

  
  Knowledge Problem — Authority: 522
  Michael Giberson Al Roth, at Market Design , points out an inadvertently amusing column from The Guardian a few weeks back, “ Our speechless outrage demands a new language of the common good .” The writer, Madeleine Bunting, asserts that economists of a certain sort (namely, Friedrich Hayek and his ...
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