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Hazony vs Kirk
In Conservatism: A Rediscovery (2022), Yoram Hazony treats Russell Kirk's (1953) The Conservative Mind as "the most important book by a postwar American…
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Long Covid Diaries: new Medical Treatment (and some blog house-keeping).
It's been about five weeks since I switched Digressions to Substack and last wrote an entry in my covid diary. (For my official "covid diaries" see…
May 23
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Quining Quine and Spinosizing Spinoza; reflections on Dennett and Tocqueville
I like to imagine that Dan Dennett started his celebrated (1988) "Quining qualia" as an attempt to publish a journal article in the manner of a comic…
May 22
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Stebbing on Clarity with nods to Kuhn, Sellars, and Quine
One of the eye-opening claims in Frederique Janssen-Lauret's recent (2022) Cambridge Elements on Susan Stebbing is that "much of Stebbing's published…
May 18
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On Clarity from the early Moderns to Early Analytic Philosophy, especially Stebbing.
From Descartes to Hume, the so-called ‘way of ideas,’ was devoted to the notion that clarity is a desirable and potential property or quality of ideas…
May 17
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On Hazony and Bourke on Burke and Frank S. Meyer, and the risks of Freedom
Lodged inside Yoram Hazony's Conservatism: A Rediscovery is also a polemic against what came to be known as 'fusionism.' (Recall my series of posts on…
May 16
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On the functional role of 'Woke;' Huntington, and Abstract, Imaginary Threats.
For various reasons, not the least because it's so rarely done, I am planning to teach a course on 'modern conservatism' this Fall. I've been canvassing…
May 15
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On the Origins of Liberalism: The Swedish Revolution of 1809 and Adam Smith
As regular readers know, (recall here; and here) I have argued that the political meaning of 'liberal' that became influential in the nineteenth century…
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