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Sunday, November 6, 2011
Populism Part Three: Treacherous Elites
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In Part One I explained why I don’t like the “Occupy Wall Street” movement and why, although I agree with many of the specific policies they...
Friday, October 28, 2011
Populism Part Two: The Dangers of Democracy
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it, good and hard . – H. L. Mencken “The European p...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Populism Part One: Dissent, Left and Right
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On September 17, 2011, a mob descended upon Zuccotti Park in the financial district of Lower Manhattan. Calling themselves “the 99%” and de...
Monday, October 10, 2011
All A Matter of Taste
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There is an old Latin saying that goes “de gustibus non est disputandum”. Its meaning would be rendered in English by “there is no arguing ...
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Bach to Beethoven: Music and Culture, the High and the Low
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The creative aspect of human nature, which according to Dorothy Sayers is the very essence of the image of God in man, expresses itself in a...
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