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American conservatives are not a monolithic bloc. The initial post-New Deal conservative movement was made by welding together three different groups: traditionalists (social conservatives), libertarians, and anti-communists (national secu
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The world of 1984 was based on James Burnham's book The Managerial Revolution . Orwell even wrote a couple reviews of Burnham's work. Here's the first: http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/burnham&#
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On ethics and international relations, my previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7071033
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> I think what the author misses is the large institutional structure that restricts the supply of experts and (as a result) enhances their prestige. These days, with the growing availability of technical information, existing systems o
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> What I'd really like to know is what process does the President-elect endure that turns him into an alien lizard from hell? A Truman-era bureaucrat coined the phrase, "where you stand depends on where you sit." When Ob
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> If any of them thought about the social implications of their activities, whether it was predatory lending, abusive credit card practices, or market manipulation, they might have taken comfort that, in accordance with Adam Smith’s dict
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> there are consequences both psychologically, financially, and physically being an outcast I think nerds and geeks are acutely aware of the costs of being outcasts. The period of their life when they typically turn to computers and pro
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Property owners in general should not suffer from deflation more than anyone else who has purchased any asset. People who have gone into debt in order to purchase an asset during deflation, however, will face problems: http://fra
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> Charlie Stross writes in the article kindly submitted here: "Bitcoin violates Gresham's law: Stolen electricity will drive out honest mining. (So the greatest benefits accrue to the most ruthless criminals.)" I try to f
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More like, a well-off white guy castigating another well-off white guy for writing an article about how he deliberately fucked with some working class cops to prove …whatever.
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Calling Deleuze lucid is the opposite of the truth: his use of language is obfuscatory and arcane.
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> It's stories like this that make me wish we had the term "national security" as narrowly defined as the term "treason". The U.S. Constitution has Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 that reads: > The Congress sha
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> it would take years of study for you to begin No, it would take about one semester to begin to understand why two parties representing two branches of the liberal tradition within political theory cannot represent "most of politic
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> lording your supposed superiority over opponents is not a good way to conduct a discussion. It wasn't really an invitation to discussion. > the split between "right wing" and "left wing" is so general as to
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There's no quick fix for this level of misapprehension. You would just have to start at the beginning, Political Theory 101, bust out your copy of Plato's Republic and read your way back to the present.
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> In most of political theory, the spectrum breaks down roughly into two… As a Ph.D. candidate in a top tier political science program, let me just stop you here and assure you that whatever follows is almost certainly categorically in
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Requiring that posts stay on topic isn't censorship. Terms of Service are Terms of Service. There are lots and lots of other Apple/Mac/iPhone forums around the web.
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There were reactions just like yours when the longbow was introduced in the 1300s. And again when the gun was introduced in the 1500s.
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Counterpoint: https://www.google.com/search?q=romance+novel+covers&safe=of...
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> Manning swore to protect the US Constitution and did just that. What did he reveal that was unconstitutional?
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> He broke an arbitrary rule The rules against releasing classified information are in no way arbitrary and have been long-standing parts of military and foreign affairs since their inception. There has been no time when releasing an in
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> The stubborn application of law is not justice. It is authoritarianism No it's not. The stubborn application of the law is called "rule of law" and it's the foundation of the political theory coming out of Enlighte
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Manning didn't refuse an unlawful order. Nor did he reveal other soldiers executing unlawful orders. Manning broke the law to reveal an indiscriminate collection of State Department cables.
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What happens when every soldier feels within their rights to determine who the domestic enemies of the Constitution are, and takes unprecedented action against those enemies? Did Manning reveal anything that was prima facie unconstitution
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I think Apple is pretty well set on mobile browsing as the future growth market. They don't seem to mind cannibalizing desktop sales for iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touches. In mobile browsing, Safari has ~60% market share. As long as
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> One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader. http://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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> "that's questionable, but even so, your rights and liberties are violated." A more pointed example might be: indiscriminate surveillance can be used by corrupt officials for political persecution of their domestic politi
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Orwell owes more to James Burnham's non-fiction book The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World . Orwell's pamphlet-within-a-book in 1984 "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" is more
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This is more or less Gramsci's theory of hegemony. Hegemony, distinct from coercion, is the production of "spontaneous consent" for the policies of the "ruling class" through the means of civil society, intellectua
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Attributed to, but disputed in its authenticity.

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