Your Humble Blogger is not actually finished with the Theological-Political Treatise, but I’m at a point where Spinoza appears to have finished with Scripture. It isn’t sacred, he says, except insofar as anything is sacred which leads people to faith…
OK, first of all, Your Humble Blogger really should have better things to do than read bizarre columns by radio talk-show hosts. As it happens, Dennis Prager is on the list of right-leaning columns I have Eleana Benador send to…
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…
Felicia R. Lee has an interesting article in this morning’s Times about the process of writing new constitutions for new nations (including new nations built on the ashes of old nations, such as South Africa, Eritrea, or Lithuania). It’s a…
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…