December 2009
7 posts
Academic research on steampunk ≠ job security.
My friend’s take: “Imagine being the person reading this paper and having to recount the guy’s various expenses: $279.20 for a plane ticket! $257.54 in application fees! The script should have included stage direction to nail oneself to a cross.”
The rise of the muckraking right. http://americasfuture.org/doublethink/2009/11/muckrakers/
Some holiday reading: http://claremont.org/publications/pubid.775/pub_detail.asp
Come to the AFF Christmas party! http://americasfuture.org/blog/2009/12/first-annual-aff-christmas-party/
The Lockean Novel
“Richardson is one of the great English ‘Lockean’ novelists of the 18th and early 19th centuries (Defoe and Austen are two others). The Lockean novel, as I call it, debunks the ‘fancy and covetousness of the quarrelsome and contentious,’ the aristocratic order that puts too much power and temptation into the hands of the arrogant wealthy. It also elevates the...
Holiday reading →
“So far as liberalism is active and positive, so far, that is, as it moves toward organization, it tends to select the emotions and qualities that are most susceptible of organization. As it carries out its active and positive ends it unconsciously limits its view of the world to what it can deal with, and unconsciously tends to develop theories and principles, particularly in relation to...