Monthly Archives: May 2011

The Atrocity of Hope, Part 16: Surveiller et Punir

30th
May. × ’11
By Roderick

(CHT Charles J.)

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Doctor Who vs. the Nazgûl

29th
May. × ’11
By Roderick

SPOILER WARNING: Doctor Who episode 6, “The Almost People,” aired in Britain today, but won’t air till next weekend in the u.s. (Memorial Day weekend is what’s putting things out of synch.) Of course there arrrgh other means of seeing it …. But if you haven’t seen “The Almost People,” do not watch the following [...]

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Well, There’s Spam, Egg, Sausage, and Spam; That’s Not Got MUCH Spam In It

29th
May. × ’11
By Roderick

Kevin Carson, in the new Freeman, on European “socialism” versus American “capitalism”: [S]ocial democracy treats privilege as normal and leaves it intact – then regulates it to make it bearable to the subordinate classes without altering its fundamental nature as privilege. But most of the positive aspects of the European model simply duplicate what could [...]

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Groves of Luxury and Idleness?

28th
May. × ’11
By Roderick

As is so often the case with right-wing critics of academia – even, or perhaps especially, those who are academics themselves (and so, perhaps, often brimming with resentment against their mostly left-wing colleagues?) – retiring sociology professor David Rubinstein, in his recent piece in The Weekly Standard, offers what I think is a misleading picture [...]

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What Did You Do Over Summer Break?

28th
May. × ’11
By Roderick

Monash undergraduate Amelia Fraser-McKelvie found the universe’s missing mass during hers.

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Non Sub Homine?

28th
May. × ’11
By Roderick

The President is above the law. The police are above the law. So what’s the point of having laws, again?

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