October 5, 2013
As a matter of history, the administrative state, the FDR state, that the Tea Partiers are glad to shut down temporarily, and that some would like to shut down permanently, is the same state that arose contemporaneously with the fall of the Weimar Republic, in relation to common and overlapping challenges, and that was consolidated in political competition and eventually at war with its immediate successor (which technically still functioned under the Weimar constitution). A serious discussion of an actual or potential crisis of liberal democracy in the leading liberal democratic nation-state, and on the system level – the level of basic responsibilities and assumptions of government – cannot help but take into account prior, concretely related crises, even if particular circumstances initially appear vastly different.
Continued
October 3, 2010
If conservatives are wrong about everything else, they may be right about this one underlying fact: A certain idea of American greatness may be slipping into the past. From that perspective, "steady incremental decline" may even begin to look like one of the better open paths.
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June 15, 2013
If we agree that we want a world in which nation-states do not use chemical weapons against their peoples, or a world in which chemical and other WMD use does not spread in interstate or other conflict situations, and the only way to ensure that worthy goal is to assert and enforce a transnational imperative, then we are neo-imperialists, and the only reason we do not confess as much is that we have inherited an ideological-terminological allergy.
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On “The sanity of Chait’s “complete insanity” (race in contemporary American politics)”
people who have actually worked with Chait might agree with the contention that he's occasionally FOS.
On “Standing athwart themselves”
almost every minute godless savages and idolaters crash through our borders, borders that a cowardly incompetent bloated and socialist administration barely pretends to defend, and seize innocent and blonde Christian women and children and in pagan cruelty, hurls these innocent souls over the edge of the Earth.
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the inner empire of reagan idolatry
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Goddammit Tsar, if you don't preserve NATURAL LAW, who on Earth can and will?
other than that, this for the above
On “Tod Kelly, Ta-Nehisi Coates, et al. vs. Richard Cohen”
Coates on Baldwin, anyone?
On “The Iran Deal Concretely”
I'm nothing if not non-sarcastic
On “Open Thread”
It was after that night that Yossarian realized that the fish dreams were indicative of a real problem.
On “The Iran Deal Concretely”
good point, miggs.... that's not at all an overstatement of a claim that's an oversimplification.
so don't worry, God made you think and type that.
On “Israel’s “Wig-Out””
I think Dyer's been working up a six-part series of essays detailing the benefits of it.
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I would think that an Israeli strike in Iran in defiance of the US government's expressed wishes would probably be concurrent with Israel launching nuclear attacks on Washington and New York.
This would serve to confuse and silence people likely to disapprove and criticize the strike on Iran.
On “Tod Kelly, Ta-Nehisi Coates, et al. vs. Richard Cohen”
feel free to point out the pieces of peanut among the mass...
On “Open Thread”
I was just gonna fire up twitter and thank you..... but this is far more convenient.
gotta say that the chap in the pic sure knows have to sit a beetle....
On “Tod Kelly, Ta-Nehisi Coates, et al. vs. Richard Cohen”
did your discussion involve .......
(10g) Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white.
(10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.
On “Open Thread”
lord knows that I enjoy teasing miggs, and he gets up your nose far more than mine.
but you guys seem not to be overdoing it at all.
On “Tod Kelly, Ta-Nehisi Coates, et al. vs. Richard Cohen”
it was a false, silly and needless controversy
On “Open Thread”
here's one Frankfurt book that fits you here.....
On ““The Great Frustration””
I can't forget that I learned nothing from bourbon
On “fun new toy at Sulia”
it's quite moving
in a graphic sort of
pop-up
poetical
polemic
fashion
On “Open Thread”
Groucho: He died too soon, too soon!
Chico: Yeah, an hour too soon.
On “Repealing Godwin’s Law”
questionable.
I would have figured you to hold that a thing stands more for itself than the things with which it's associated.
On “Open Thread”
with the NFL lately drafting German nationals, I was trying to envision it on a jersey, but I'm guessing that even the hardiest and experienced equipment managers, guys who went through and weathered Fuamatu-Ma'afala and Houshmandzadeh will pull out
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Schwangerschaftsverhütungsmittel
On “Prodigal Son (on the Russian Initiative)”
that's merely a retreat ...... and if nothing is so unless the hegemon treats it as so, then why can't compliance be termed defiance and all else be dismissed?
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but is the defiance in the details?
On “Open Thread”
and found wanting?
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