Daily Archives: September 18, 2016

WP: ‘His Motive Remains Unknown’

ISIS-linked news agency: Suspect in stabbings at Minnesota mall was 'a soldier of the Islamic State' https://t.co/RNoV9XLzji — Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 18, 2016

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Jews For Refugees

National #Jewish orgs urge world leaders to stand up for #refugees in advance of the #UNGA & #UN4RefugeesMigrants. https://t.co/HTLHowVMIb — HIAS (@HIASrefugees) September 18, 2016 HIAS: Jewish Statement on Historic Refugee Summits On September 19, 2016, world leaders will convene … Continue reading

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Legality, legitimacy, and Carl Schmitt (Paul Gottfried)

Paul Gottfried wrote for National Review in 1987: ON APRIL 7, 1985, the death of Carl Schmitt, at age 97, brought to an end the longest and stormiest career in the history of political thought. Schmitt’s hero, Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), … Continue reading

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Carl Schmitt: Politics and Theory. By Paul Edward Gottfried. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990

Review: Paul Gottfried’s brilliant new work elucidates Schmitt’s view of the state. As Gottfried stresses, Schmitt rejected the pluralism of Harold Laski, who saw the state as but one of many groups within society. This anti-political view ignored the essence … Continue reading

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A Jewish Perspective On Carl Schmitt

Paul Gottfried writes in 2015: Carl Schmitt: A Biography, Reinhard Mehring, Polity, 700 pages Reinhard Mehring’s study of the long-lived German political and legal theorist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) is the most exhaustive biography known to me of a deeply fascinating … Continue reading

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