Monthly Archives: February 2016

Sow They Say

As we approach the last Republican Debate before Super Tuesday, it’s “reap just what you sow” day from the Left across the Center and all points beyond the movement conservative right.

Posted in Politics

Addendum: What if Trump Just Subsides Instead of Exploding Trumpastrophically?

I had the wayward thought last night that the Trump bubble, which many of us have been expecting to pop with an audible sound, in one typically Trumpastrophic moment, would just deflate on its own

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The Party Deconstructs

In times such as these, party loyalty raises the question of what a party is at all in America 2016 – or at least what it means to be a Republican, if Trump is one, and potentially the standard-bearer.

Posted in Featured, Politics

Who or What Is Using “Commenter Archive” and “commenter-thread”?

If any of you human beings have anything to say on the major uptick in use of these commenting features, please let me know. The spiders and robots don’t answer questions directly.

Posted in Web Design, WordPress Plug-Ins

The Coordination Solution, Property, and the Exception (Comment)

The necessary transtemporal and social re-construction of the identity of the individual is a process we conventionally define as a matter of “religion,” and a common materialist explanation of religion refers precisely its utility as coordination solution, and so we’re back to where we began, with the littlest possible story, of one person and his or her desires and needs somehow to be related to the self-organization of a global mass of 7 billion souls, via political theology.

Posted in Political Philosophy, The Exception

The Libertarian Praxis Problem: Part 1

Libertarianism and the Left, and the more general problem for metaphysically individualist liberalism.

Posted in Political Philosophy

Short Bibliography/Postography on the Problem of Libertarian Praxis

Preliminary list supplementing a set of posts at Ordinary Times, whose publication I expect to occur shortly, and which began as a comment on the question of a “libertarian moment” in American politics – whether it ever occurred at all and whether

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