Your Humble Blogger is always thrilled to find Smart People who agree with him (of course, Your Humble Blogger is also thrilled to find Smart People who disagree with him, but are willing to tell him why). One of my…
Your Humble Blogger recently came across a fascinating essay called “The Liberalism of Fear”, by Judith Shklar in Liberalism and the Moral Life, edited by Nancy L. Rosenblum, et al (Cambridge : Harvard University Press © 1989). It’s evidently reprinted…
Well, and now Your Humble Blogger is back on track, so let’s punch on through the Conservative Tenets. When last we left Mr. Rossiter, he was up to: 14. The civilizing, disciplining, conserving mission of education Let me again begin…
In this morning’s Observer, John Naughton writes in defense of bloggers and blogging. He is responding to a recent New York Times article complaining, it seems, about how bloggers have risen to the top of all the Google searches, and…
Your Humble Blogger, usually, struggles to avoid cynicism, but is forced to it by events. However, there’s an odd sequence of events, where Your Humble Blogger predicted, out of a sort of cynicism, events which didn’t ultimately take place. Was…
Sorry about the lag in between posts. Moderately busy at work, hella busy at home, congenitally lazy, thunderstorms. Also, I haven’t read any particularly thought-provoking op-ed pieces, or had any particularly interesting thoughts myself. Spinoza is going slowly, slowly (I’m…
Your Humble Blogger recently came across Making Globalization Good – The Moral Challenges of Global Capitalism, ed. John H. Dunning, Oxford University Press, 2003. I don’t claim to have read all of any of the chapters, but I skimmed a…
One of the points of looking in detail at the Conservative Tenets was to see where Your Humble Blogger was in agreement, as well as the dissent. I’ve found a bit of agreement, and a lot of disagreement, as well…
Your Humble Blogger often gets caught up on throwaway lines in the middle of otherwise perfectly reasonable columns. The latest is from E.J. Dionne, Jr. in this morning’s Washington Post, in which he says: [Senator John] Kerry’s speech underscores that…
Where’s the outrage? OK, I know where the outrage is, and it’s sitting in the heads of some of the readers of this very blog, but still. The BBC is reporting that not only were we all misled about what…