Tortured Logic
Jan 18Guest Blog by Jennifer McKitrick [cross-posted at JenMc’s Blog] 1. Water boarding is torture. 2. The Bush administration authorized water boarding. 3. Authorizing torture is a punishable offense. Therefore… ? What’s the rationale for denying the claim that someone from the Bush administration is liable to criminal prosecution? We should look forward, not backward (Obama). [...]
Obama Does Stand-Up
Jan 17Earlier tonight I saw a replay of an interview with Obama from two years ago. Obama was explaining the difference between the Democratic and Republican parties. The Republicans, he said, were adherents of an absolutist laissez-faire ideology and thought government should have no role in the economy. The Democrats, on the other hand, agreed with [...]
Minus Six
Jan 17I was saddened to read of the death of Patrick McGoohan. I discovered him in high school during the late 80s, when PBS was replaying the two groundbreaking series which he both starred in and helped to create – the surreal, libertarian-ish science-fiction drama The Prisoner (which might be summarised as “an Ayn Rand hero [...]
Aristotle, Codevilla, Putnam
Jan 16[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Stuff of mine that’s newly online: Aristotle’s Conception of Freedom [Review of Metaphysics 49.4, June 1996] Aristotle’s Egalitarian Utopia: The Polis kat’ eukhēn [M. H. Hansen, ed, The Imaginary Polis: Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Centre 7, 2005] A Florentine in Baghdad: Codevilla on the War on Terror [Reason Papers [...]
Evil Reigns at DC
Jan 15Comics readers – have you been a tad puzzled over how to keep the continuity straight in DC’s latest, ongoing universe-wide crisis – with, for example, Batman fighting crime as usual in one comic, M.I.A. in another comic, and M.I.A. for an entirely different reason in yet another comic? You’ll get no reassurance from these [...]
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