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Tag Archives: Leo Strauss
In the UK, political philosophy is a pre-crime
Only a brave self-confident community can tolerate a man uncompromisingly dedicated to the open quest for truth. –Harry Neumann On the surface, the idea seems to be ludicrous like something Philip K. Dick might write. He coined the term “pre-crime”[1] … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, justice, philosophy
Tagged Counter-terrorism, Leo Strauss, Minority Report (film), Philip K. Dick, war on terror
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Persecution and the Art of Writing the return to an ancient problem
The story of the Bangladeshi writers who were hacked to death has not drawn as much attention as the Charlie Hebdo attack even though they share some similarities. The Bangladeshi writers wanted to write about atheism and to question the … Continue reading
A Partial Commentary on Howse’s Leo Strauss: Man of Peace
Prefatory remarks.[1] Professor Howse has written an ambitious book to make the case for Leo Strauss as a man of peace and to defend him from his critics. That he has to meet both charges is indicative of the state … Continue reading
Response to Corey Robin on Eichmann: funny man
(This post is a response to Corey Robbin’s blog[1]) One must always remember that ridicule is not a refutation. The most direct way to put this is that victims of the Final Solution did not laugh their way to the … Continue reading
Posted in Government, justice, philosophy
Tagged Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Antisemitism, Banality of evil, Germany, Hannah Arendt, Jews, Leo Strauss, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, Nazism, The Holocaust
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Prosecution and the art of social media writing: reflections on McAlpine v Bercow
Today, the High Court ruled that Sally Bercow had defamed Lord McAlpine through a tweet, which could be understand to accuse him of sexually abusing boys in care. It follows that, for these reasons, I find that the Tweet meant, … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, good writing, privacy, transparency, Uncategorized
Tagged defamation, Leo Strauss, Politics, privacy, Social media, transparency, Twitter
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Hyperlinks, Leo Strauss and the return of esoteric writing
I have been thinking recently about the phrase “Hyperlinks subvert hierarchies.” I argued in an earlier blog that this was not the case. I suggested that hyperlinks reflect hierarchies and those hierarchies are networks. In that approach, I only considered … Continue reading
Constant connectivity and the search for meaning
The SXSWi Festival made me think about the limits of constant connectivity. http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/03/sxsw2011-4-themes.html By that I do not mean in a technological sense. Connectivity is creating a gap. The gap is one of meaning. By that I mean we are … Continue reading
Posted in good writing, linked data, open data, transparency
Tagged Leo Strauss, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Political Science, Social Sciences, time
