Monday 2 February 2015
Drink to Nothing
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(I.) The cup in front of me contains a deadly infusion of hemlock that will kill anyone who drinks it. And: (II.) I do not want to di...
Something and Nothing
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“Who says there’s not nothing?”, asks philosopher Arthur Danto 1 , apparently unaware that even a stupid question is something. . . . ...
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The reactionary is no utopian. His ideals have mud on their boots.
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The instinctive and habitual task of authoritarianism is to repress and restrain creativity, thus to smother trash and spur genius to thriv...
Thursday 29 January 2015
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Against Oakeshott . — Nomocracy is a kind of telocracy that the liberal promotes as a neutral yet opposing tendency to every kind of telocr...
From
The Sensitive Guide to English Usage
(2,796th ed.)
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person of colour , n.phr ., is to be distinguished in sensitive discourse from coloured person . Whilst usage of the first is presently (a...
Wednesday 7 January 2015
Worstalling
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Tim Worstall : “[E]radicate those who did this. No mercy.” 1 Dearieme : “Where’s your usual pieties about a fair trial, Tim? And your o...
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