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• Philip who?

  
  Crooked Timber — Authority: 656
  My post yesterday was about how politicians seize on the academic research the suits their agenda rather than being disposed to listen to good arguments. Dog bites man, you might think. A similar phenomenon is at work in the elevation of minor academics who can give a bit of intellectual sheen to some political ...
  22 hours ago

• Immigration and “impact”

  
  Crooked Timber — Authority: 656
  The British government recently changed its immigration policy . Well, I say it changed it, but perhaps what it did or, worse, “signalled”, was to intensify its existing policy. Immigration to the UK from outside the EU is, henceforth, to be driven by the needs of the labour market. People will only be allowed in ...
  1 day ago

• Comments on the necrosocial

  
  I cite — Authority: 471
  I was re-reading The Necrosocial , an essay or polemic written in connection with the UC strike and occupation last week. I want to think about two aspects of the essay, not quite as a critique but more in an effort to push my own thinking. These two aspects involve shifting the terms from social death to death of ...
  2 days ago

• If democracy is to come...

  
  I cite — Authority: 471
  If democracy isnt here but is to come, then preparations are in order. What kind? First, acknowledgement of non-democracy. Its not here and now, so what is here and now should not be defended as democratic but rejected as non-democratic. Second, insofar as democracy is not here and now, pretenses to democracy, here ...
  4 days ago

• Federalism–The Series–Part 3—The Why?

  
  Info Ink — Authority: 136
  Inkwell Institute Professor’s Classroom Subject:  Political Theory/Government/American History Now the question must be asked…..Why Federalism? The Framers of the Constitution created a federal system with a national government strong enough to unify the states in their ...
  4 days ago

• Why are policies different?

  
  Freedom is My Nationality — Authority: 474
  There are three factors to why policies that address the same issue vary so much between political systems: ideas, interests, and institutions. No study of policy differences would be complete without reference to all three of these concepts. Ideas are defined in this essay as Craig Parsons defines them: “claims ...
  6 days ago

• Overton Window Glenn Beck YouTube! – LALATE (blog)

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 168
  Overton Window Glenn Beck YouTube! LALATE (blog) Here is video of Glenn Becks Overton Window remarks. What is the Overton Window ? The Overton Window is a political theory in which you shift the range of ... Glenn Beck explains the Overton Window Media Matters for America all 2 news ...
  1 week ago

• Our Liberal Overlords

  
  Principalities And Powers — Authority: 411
  Every so often, someone offers a flash of brilliance that illuminates the puzzling contours of the world. John Steele Gordon sheds helpful light of that sort on the way political liberals see the world. He calls that view "the liberal paradigm" (" Obama and the Liberal Paradigm ," Wall Street Journal , Nov. 4, 2009), ...
  1 week ago

• On Movember, Tim Soutphommasane and civics

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 535
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• A Preliminary Thought

  
  Athens & Jerusalem — Authority: 429
  I think we should retire the term "conservative". Or at least never have another intellectual debate about what it "really" means. Its a fools errand to begin with, and lately it seems to be the province of self-proclaimed and self-important iconoclasts - Friedersdorf, Deneen - to maunder on about how ...
  1 week ago

• Federalist 21 – Hamilton

  
  The Cranky Conservative — Authority: 130
  Having explored some of the theoretical and historical problems with confederacies in the general sense, Alexander Hamilton now moves the discussion towards the specific  defects of the American confederacy.  In Federalist 21 , he begins to outline what he sees as the current system’s major flaws.  His first ...
  1 week ago

• Privacy Watchdog Criticizes Canadian Financial Data Gathering

  
  LILA RAJIVA: The Mind-Body Politic — Authority: 137
  In the news, privacy in Canada is on the retreat:“In her annual report, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart says the little-known Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada must scale back its data gathering.  The centre zeros in on cash linked to money laundering, terrorism and other crimes. ...
  1 week ago

• the dust of collapsed towers

  
  I cite — Authority: 471
  Progressive media focuses on Republicans--Sarah Palins idiocy, the inanities of the partys non-position. Popular culture highlights the end of the world, total destruction, complete annihilation, destruction of the planet. Democrats focus on their opponents--not on what they support or offer. And worst of all: ...
  1 week ago

• Alan Charles Kors on the Crimes of Communism and the Liberation Celebrated on November 9

  
  tomgpalmer.com — Authority: 472
  Alan Charles Kors – Freedom Dinner 2009 Keynote from Atlas Network on Vimeo .
  1 week ago

• Religious practices, religious law, and the establishment clause.

  
  Uncommon Priors — Authority: 121
  The always interesting Paul Horwitz has a post up on Prawfs about religious arguments and the First Amendment . The post objects to the suggestion that it violates the Establishment Clause to ban stem cell research if there is no non-religious argument for such a ban. According to Paul, this is just a ...
  1 week ago

• Federalism–The Series–Part 2–Types

  
  Info Ink — Authority: 136
  Inkwell Institute Professor’s Classroom Subject:  American History/Political Theory A few quick facts on federalism—28 countries have  some sort of federal system…..about 40% of the world’s population live with a type of federal government. There are some distinctive characteristics that define ...
  1 week ago

• A Very Exciting New Book

  
  tomgpalmer.com — Authority: 472
  I’ve been extremely busy lately (meaning work until 4 am frequently, plus travel) and have been behind on some writing projects, but I am really, really pleased that I brought along on my trip to China James C. Scott’s The Art of Not Being Governed . It’s a remarkably interesting treatment (I’m only a bit ...
  1 week ago

• Who Faces Implicit High Marginal Tax Rates?

  
  Wash Park Prophet — Authority: 133
  There are people in the United States who face marginal tax rates close to 100%. Who are they? Not the rich, but the working poor . For a family of three, near 100% implicit marginal tax rates impact those making between about $15,000 to $30,000 a year. Their marginal federal income tax rates are low or zero. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Federalists 18-20 – Madison (and Hamilton?)

  
  The Cranky Conservative — Authority: 130
  Before looking at Federalists 18 , 19 , and 20 , I note that there’s some dispute about the authorship of these three.  Madison is universally credited with being at least the co-author of all three essays, and many sources give sole credit to him.  The Benjamin Wright edition that I use lists Madison singly as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Normal men do not know that everything is possible

  
  I cite — Authority: 471
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