Monthly Archives: October 2022

Deliberative Democratic Theory and Empirical Political Science

Harvard Political Science professor Dennis F. Thompson writes in 2008: * Citizens and their representatives are expected to justify the laws they would impose on one another by giving reasons for their political claims and responding to others’ reasons in … Continue reading

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Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn’s New Learning Systems For Torah

I’ve learned to my chagrin over the past 30 years that the more charismatic the rabbi, the bigger the chance that he’s a charlatan. This bloke, however, seems to be different. I just hope he doesn’t release a book on … Continue reading

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What’s The Difference Between Modernism & Post-Modernism?

From the Tate: Postmodernism was a reaction against modernism. Modernism was generally based on idealism and a utopian vision of human life and society and a belief in progress. It assumed that certain ultimate universal principles or truths such as … Continue reading

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The God Idea

I like to spend Sunday mornings journaling on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. I read the Big Book with HerbK’s three questions in mind: * Why am I doing this work? * Why am I doing this work now? … Continue reading

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Senses of Style By Jeff Dolven (2017)

Here are some highlights: * Nonetheless the claim there are only interpretations is as flattening as the claim style is everything… * Style holds things together, things and people, schools and movements and periods. It makes us see wholes where … Continue reading

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